Eaton v. San Diego Tuberculosis Ass'n

This is an appeal from a decree determining that the appellant was entitled, on distribution, to receive only the personal effects of the deceased and that the respondent was entitled to all other property left by her.

The question presented in the trial court and upon this appeal is as to the proper interpretation of the next to the last paragraph of an holographic will left by the deceased, which reads as follows:

“My Last Will and Testament.

“I wish to be cremated, (ashes not to be sent East) All my property to be sold. After all expenses paid. If anything left to go to Rest Haven-Home for…