Legal Opinion
Estate of Knight
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 7, 1943No. Civ. 12331PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtNourse, P. J.
This is an appeal from a decree establishing heirship and determining that respondents were the sole heirs of decedent.
The decedent died intestate in April, 1941. He was the son and last surviving descendant of Thomas Knight and Serena Haines Knight. Mary E. Rennert, Franklin Guy Miller, and Eugene Guy Miller were the only surviving children of Emma Haines, a sister of Serena Haines Knight, the mother of decedent. Jessie Haines De Mauriac and Frederick Haines were the only surviving children of Anthony Haines, a brother of Serena Haines Knight. Frederick Haines died pending the appeal and his…
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