ESTATE OF WEDEMEYER

Docket No. 14929.

109 Cal.App.2d 67 (1952)

240 P.2d 8

Estate of RUPERT G. WEDEMEYER, Deceased. Estate of EMMA W. WEDEMEYER, Deceased. ROLAND C. WEDEMEYER et al., Appellants, v. ETHEL W. SULLIVAN, as Administratrix, etc., Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

January 31, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Preovolos for Appellants.

Edward J. Lynch for Respondent.


NOURSE, P.J.

This appeal involves an interpretation of the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (Prob. Code, §§ 296-296.8) enacted in 1945 to repeal section 1963, subdivision 40 of the Code of Civil Procedure which created a disputable presumption as to survivorship when two persons met death in the same calamity.

Rupert G. Wedemeyer and his wife were instantly killed in an airplane accident in Scotland,...

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