ESTATE OF DOW

Docket No. S.F. 19406.

48 Cal.2d 649 (1957)

312 P.2d 1

Estate of EDGAR LAURENCE DOW, Deceased. MAXINE PATRICIA HUTCHINSON, Appellant, v. MAXINE B. DOW, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 17, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. White, Hutchinson & Quattrin and J. Albert Hutchinson for Appellant.

J. Oscar Goldstein, P.M. Barceloux, Burton J. Goldstein, Goldstein, Barceloux & Goldstein, Joseph L. Alioto, Erskine, Erskine & Tulley and Morse Erskine II, for Respondent.


SPENCE, J.

Appellant, who is decedent's daughter and a beneficiary under his will, appeals from an order granting a family allowance to her mother, who is decedent's widow and also a beneficiary under his will. The daughter contends that the probate court, having entered a final decree of distribution in the estate, thereupon lost jurisdiction to enter the challenged order. However, the daughter had appealed from certain portions of that decree, and the widow contends...

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