ESTATE OF BOYD

Docket No. 21908.

148 Cal.App.2d 821 (1957)

307 P.2d 754

Estate of MAHALA M. BOYD, Deceased. JANE BOYD MUDD, Appellant, v. MARTHA B. WHITE, Respondent.

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

March 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bailey & McWhinney and Rufus Bailey for Appellant.

Hunter & Liljestrom and Harold J. Hunter for Respondent.


MOORE, P.J.

This controversy arose out of a petition filed by the administratrix with will annexed to determine heirship.

The question involved is whether oral testimony is admissible to prove the attending facts and circumstances as to the family relations of the testator in order to determine the objects of the testator's bounty.

Mahala M. Boyd deceased on December 23, 1950 at the age of 83. Her holographic will dated September 4, 1948, was duly...

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