Estate of Moore v. Moore
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Santa Cruz County settling the accounts of an administrator of the estate of a deceased person. Pending the settlement of the estate in question, the administrator was judicially declared insane, and comm Ti ed to the lunatic asylum. He was granted a certificate of discharge therefrom, and subsequently judicially declared restored to capacity and of sound mind.
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Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Santa Cruz County settling the accounts of an administrator of the estate of a deceased person. Pending the settlement of the estate in question, the administrator was judicially declared insane, and comm Ti ed to the lunatic asylum. He was granted a certificate of discharge therefrom, and subsequently judicially declared restored to capacity and of sound mind. On the trial, the court charged the jury in effect that the expenditures made by or on behalf of the administrator, while he was in the asylum, could be ratified by him after his…
1Opinion of the CourtTemple, J.
The decedent died October 30,1871, leaving a widow and five minor children, four of whom were the offspring, of a previous marriage. Letters of administration were issued to the respondent March 4, 1872, and an inventory filed June 27, 1872. Respondent, as administrator, took possession of the property of the estate, but allowed the widow and the children to occupy the residence until May, 1877, when, as is claimed by respondent, she voluntarily left with her own child, but, as she contends, she was forcibly excluded by the respondent.
On the 29th of April, 1874, the court made an order…
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