ESTATE OF LACKMANN

Docket No. 17767.

156 Cal.App.2d 674 (1958)

320 P.2d 186

Estate of MINNA C. LACKMANN, Deceased. E.A. LACKMANN, SR., as Trustee, etc., Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE, etc., Respondent.

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

January 14, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Ehlen for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Elizabeth Palmer and Wiley W. Manuel, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


BRAY, J.

Appeal from order of the probate court ordering trustee to pay to the Department of Mental Hygiene of the State of California certain sums for past and future support of George H. Lackmann.

QUESTIONS PRESENTED

1. Can the court order payment from a testamentary spendthrift trust estate for care of the beneficiary at a state mental institution over the objection of a trustee given "complete and absolute discretion?"

2. Was the court...

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