Legal Opinion
In Re the Estate of Tompkins
California Supreme Court
Decided March 11, 1901No. S.F. No. 1742PublishedCited by 28 opinions
APPEAL from a decree of the Superior Court of Alameda County distributing the estate of a deceased person. John Ellsworth, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison,j.
—Appeal from the decree of final distribu-, tion.
In the ninth paragraph of her will, executed in 1892, the testatrix disposed of. the residue of her estate to her six children (naming them), share and share alike, and at the close of this paragraph made the following statement: —
“ I declare that I have heretofore loaned to my son Albert Tompkins the sum and amount of four thousand dollars; to my son Ira Tompkins the sum and amount of four thousand dollars; and to my son William C. Tompkins the sum and amount of one thousand dollars,—upon all of which amounts I have and do remit interest; but…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Harrison v. HaskinsCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1857
3Cited by28 opinions
- Estate of RussellCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
- Hembree v. QuinnCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
- Estate of NorthcuttCalifornia Supreme Court · 1940
- Spaniard v. TantomSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1928
- In Re Estate of WillsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1915
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