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ESTATE OF CAVNER

Docket No. 23234.

165 Cal.App.2d 260 (1958)

331 P.2d 781

Estate of LOUIS CAVNER, Deceased. ROBERT C. KIRKWOOD, as State Controller, etc., Appellant, v. THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY (a Corporation), Respondent.

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

November 18, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Hickey, Chief Inheritance Tax Attorney, and Walter H. Miller, Chief Assistant Inheritance Tax Attorney, and William L. Baugh, for Appellant.

Albert H. Allen, Michael J. Fasman and Leonard S. Wolf for Respondent.

FOURT, J.

This is an appeal from an order determining, in effect, that a devise made by the decedent went to a tax exempt New York corporation instead of to a university in Israel which did not qualify for exemption from estate and inheritance taxes.

Louis Cavner, a resident of Los Angeles County, California, made a will April 1, 1953, wherein, after specifying certain gifts, he devised a one-fourth of the residue of his estate "to the Hebrew University in...

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