ESTATE OF COFFEY

Docket No. 17634.

161 Cal.App.2d 259 (1958)

326 P.2d 511

Estate of EDWARD I. COFFEY, Deceased. Estate of KATHLEEN ANN COFFEY, Deceased. GERTRUDE HOFFMAN et al., Appellants, v. JAMES W. HARVEY, as Administrator, etc., Respondent.

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

June 11, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman S. Stimmel, O'Gara & O'Gara, Purcell, Riordan & Riordan, Mark M. Coleman and Herbert Chamberlin for Appellants.

Frank S. McGorty and Dorothy E. Handy for Respondent.


KAUFMAN, P.J.

This is an appeal from an order of the probate court dated March 21, 1956, authorizing the respondent administrator in his discretion to prosecute the claim which he had made for the estates of Coffey against the estate of Liddle despite a previous order authorizing him to compromise said claim. The facts which give rise to this controversy are as follows:

Edward I. Coffey, an attorney, died intestate on June 20, 1943. His sole heir was his widow...

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