ESTATE OF EGGLESTON

Docket No. 20317.

129 Cal.App.2d 601 (1954)

277 P.2d 469

Estate of CECIL J. EGGLESTON, Deceased. FELICITAS CECHOVIN et al., Respondents, v. CHESTER RICHARD EGGLESTON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

December 17, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maury, Larsen & Hunt, Steiner A. Larsen, Matsen, Cory & Matsen, Joseph Matsen and Clyde R. Cory, Jr., for Appellant.

Watson, Hart & Mieras, Montgomery G. Rice and Ernest R. Utley for Respondents.


VALLÉE, J.

Appeal from a decree determining who are entitled to distribution of an estate under a will. (Prob. Code, §§ 1080-1082.)

On May 3, 1951, Cecil J. Eggleston and his wife Kay made a homicide and suicide pact by which they agreed that he would first take her life and immediately thereafter take his own. The same day Cecil executed two instruments which were admitted to probate as his holographic will. The first instrument reads:

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