Peck v. Brummagim
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Plaintiff, on the 5th day of February, 1863, was and had been for some time the wife of George Peck, and continued so until his decease, which occurred on the 13th day of June, 1864. He died intestate. Defendant Brummagim was appointed his administrator. On said 5(h day of February, 1863, George Peck was worth upwards of seventy-five thousand dollars, and owed no debts.
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Appeal from the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Plaintiff, on the 5th day of February, 1863, was and had been for some time the wife of George Peck, and continued so until his decease, which occurred on the 13th day of June, 1864. He died intestate. Defendant Brummagim was appointed his administrator. On said 5(h day of February, 1863, George Peck was worth upwards of seventy-five thousand dollars, and owed no debts. On the same day he purchased from Thomas Young a fifty vara lot in the City of San Francisco, and paid therefor the sum of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
The Court found in this case that at the time when the conveyance of the premises in controversy was executed to the plaintiff, her husband, George Peck, now deceased, was *444worth a large sum of money and was owing no debts; that none of the claims against the estate of the deceased accrued until the expiration of more than a year after the conveyance was recorded ; that the purchase money expressed in the deed was paid by the deceased, and the same was not the separate property of the plaintiff; that by his direction the premises were conveyed and the deed was…
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