ESTATE OF HUGHES

Docket No. 5354.

148 Cal.App.2d 782 (1957)

307 P.2d 404

Estate of LAURA BELLE HUGHES, Deceased. H.M.S. RICHARDS, Appellant, v. ROSALIND HUGHES, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

February 27, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Musick, Peeler & Garrett and Theodore A. McCabe, Jr., for Appellant.

Edwin W. Wilson for Respondent.


BARNARD, P.J.

This is an appeal from a decree of final distribution in this estate insofar as it denies to the appellant the full amount of the residue of the estate.

The decedent's will recited that she was a widow and that she had no close relatives other than her adopted daughter, Rosalind Hughes, and the son of that daughter. She then gave bequests of $900 to that daughter and $200 to the grandson, and three...

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