In Re the Estate of Purcell
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a decree of distribution of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. James C. Rives, Judge, The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMelvin, J.
The one question presented by this appeal from the decree of distribution in the Estate of Mary B. Purcell, Deceased, is this: Was a precatory trust established by the seventeenth section of said will ?
The estate is a large one, having a value of more than four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The specific bequests disposed of one hundred and forty-one thousand dollars, leaving something 'more than two hundred and thirty thousand dollars to Charles A. Purcell as residuary legatee. By another clause of the will he was left a specific bequest of thirty thousand dollars. Appellants, heirs at…
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