In re Estate of Pfuelb
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Probate Court, City and County of San Francisco. The Court below denied the application for a distribution of the four thousand dollars to the daughter of the deceased step-son, and she appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
In the year 1869 the testatrix made and published her last will and testament, by which she bequeathed to a son of her deceased husband, by a former wife, the sum of four thousand dollars. The step-son died in May, 1872, leaving *644a surviving daughter, and the testatrix died in the September following. Her will has been duly probated; and the daughter of the step-son applies for distribution of the four thousand dollars, claiming that the legacy to her father did not lapse, but survives to her under our statute of wills.
The testatrix having died before the present…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Esty v. ClarkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
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