ESTATE OF BARBIKAS

Docket No. 18619.

175 Cal.App.2d 285 (1959)

345 P.2d 968

Estate of STEVE G. BARBIKAS, Deceased. BESSIE PHILLIPS, Appellant, v. PEARL ECONOMY JACKSON et al., Respondents.

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

November 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas C. Petris, Robert H. Kroninger, Thacher, Jones, Casey & Ball, James F. Thacher and James E. Ratcliff, Jr., for Appellant.

J.W. O'Neill, Tinning & DeLap, Francis A. Watson, Jr., and Reaves & Watson for Respondents.


KAUFMAN, P.J.

This is an appeal from the decree of distribution of the personal property of the estate of Steve E. Barbikas by Bessie Phillips, the niece of the testator and one of the legatees. On appeal, it is argued that the trial court erroneously construed the phrase "personal property" in a codicil, to be ambiguous and erroneously admitted extrinsic evidence and made erroneous rulings pertaining thereto; and that...

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