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ESTATE OF HEARD

Docket No. L.A. 24185.

49 Cal.2d 514 (1957)

319 P.2d 637

Estate of EMMA C. HEARD, Deceased. BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION (a National Banking Association), as Trustee, etc., Petitioner v. MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS (an Unincorporated Association) et al., Appellants; SHIRLEY T. HEARD, as Guardian, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 31, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No appearance for Petitioner.

Henry C. Clausen, Henry C. Clausen, Jr., Thomas J. Cunningham, John E. Landon and William R. Hulsey for Appellants.

Conron, Heard & James and Calvin H. Conron, Jr., for Respondent.

CARTER J.

Emma Heard, testatrix, a widow, died on November 23, 1939, leaving a will dated September 28, 1935. At the time of her death her blood relatives were a brother and a son, John, who was 42 years old, married to a woman 36 years old, but with no children. (He had been married before and divorced.) She left a small bequest to her brother and others including John, but the major portion of her estate she left to the...

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