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ESTATE OF TARRANT

Docket No. L.A. 21772.

38 Cal.2d 42 (1951)

237 P.2d 505

Estate of WILLIAM TARRANT, Deceased. BEN H. BROWN, as Public Administrator, etc., et al., Respondents, v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 16, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest A. Tolin, United States Attorney, Clyde C. Downing and James C.R. McCall, Assistant United States Attorneys, Blek, Wilcox & Donahue, C.F. Wilcox and Elton D. Boone, Jr., for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondents.

SPENCE, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of distribution whereby bequests to certain pension funds were declared invalid and the property so bequeathed was held to escheat to the State of California for want of heirs. (Prob. Code, § 231.) The appealing legatees contend that the respective bequests are charitable in purpose and should be so enforced by appropriate order. Their position is well taken in the light of the record and the applicable law determinative...

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