Stevens v. Superior Court

This is a petition for an appropriate writ in a controversy involving the propriety of the trial court’s rulings in striking a proposed narrative statement, and in purporting to amend the decree involved after an appeal had been taken from it.

Ernest Torregano died testate in January of 1954. His will contains three provisions that are here relevant. The first of these is the second paragraph which provides:

“I declare that I am a widower and that I have no children, issue of my marriage; that my deceased wife’s name was Pearl C. Torregano; that my entire estate is separate property.”

The…