Robertson v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n

This appeal upon a clerk’s transcript and a settled statement from decree of settlement of final account of special administrators and executors and of final distribution, raises primarily the question as to whether the probate court properly construed decedent’s will, a marriage settlement agreement, and a decree upholding the validity of that agreement.

Record

October 17, 1946, decedent executed a will in which he named as beneficiaries his then wife, Ruth Eleanor Robertson; his daughter, Florence Ruth Wanless, and his son, James Krantz Robertson. September 9, 1948, the wife died. August…