Brigham v. Hughson
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Frank J. Gordon, Welles Whitmore, and James J. Van Hovenberg, for Appellant. Nutter & Orr, Griffin & Carlson, Hatton & Scott, J. W. Hawkins, J. F. Lanagan, George P. McNoble, and Thomas, Beedy & Lanagan, for Respondents.
1Opinion of the CourtMelvin, J.
Julia J. Brigham instituted a proceeding under section 1664 of the Code of Civil Procedure to determine heirship to Hiram Hughson, deceased, whose estate had been for more than one year in processi of administration. After appropriate proceedings to 'bring in all interested persons the said Julia J. Brigham became the plaintiff by filing a pleading in which she asserted that she was the surviving wife of Hiram Hughson, by virtue of a marriage by and between herself and said Hughson contracted in the state of New York on the twenty-seventh day of October, 1860, and continuing and subsisting…
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