Lyles v. Teachers Retirement Board

BROWN (R.M.), J.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandate.

Appellant filed a petition for a writ of mandate alleging that the decedent left a will, that petitioner is executor and that the will purported to dispose of the proceeds of the decedent’s account with the State Teachers Retirement Fund. The petition was denied, and the appellant appeals from the judgment denying the issuance of peremptory writ of mandate.

In 1952 the decedent, Olive Elizabeth Meacham, who was a teacher in the State of California prior to her death, filled out a form…