In Re Estate of Campbell
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Isidore B. Dockweiler, Thomas A. J. Dockweiler, and W. D. Finch, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtAngellotti, C. J.
This is an appeal by Isidore B. Doekweiler, as trustee under the will of Maria Campbell, deceased, and by the Los Angeles Infirmary, a corporation, as legatee under said will, from a decree of partial distribution whereby there was distributed to Jose Boniface Arzaga substantially an undivided two-thirds of the property of the estate of said deceased. The theory upon which this distribution was made was that as to such property the attempted disposition made by the will of deceased was ineffectual and void under our law, with the result that as to the same the deceased died intestate, and…
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