Horan v. Varian

PRESTON, J:

This is an appeal by one defendant from a portion of an interlocutory decree in partition. The contest is really a claim of priority between appellant and respondent Driscoll in and to a portion of the fund arising from a sale of the property for partition. The story opens with the death, intestate and without issue, of Sabina A. Lanon, leaving a considerable estate in Los Angeles County. A contest arose as to the persons who were entitled to inherit said estate under the laws of California. An impostor, Kyle, who claimed to be decedent’s son, asserted the right to inherit the…