ESTATE OF HUGHES

Docket No. 19991.

202 Cal.App.2d 12 (1962)

20 Cal. Rptr. 475

Estate of EARL C. HUGHES, Deceased. JOSEPH R. ALCANTARA, as Testamentary Trustee, etc., et al., Petitioners and Respondents, v. BLANCHE V. HUGHES et al., Claimants and Appellants.

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

March 30, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Henry Ne Casek, in pro. per., for Claimants and Appellants.

Stewart Cureton, Thomas A. Black and J. Clark Benson for Petitioners and Respondents.

Andrew F. Burke as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners and Respondents.


DEVINE, J.

This appeal involves the construction of section 41 of the Probate Code, which is the California law placing certain limitations on testamentary devises and bequests to charity.

Appellants are Blanche V. Hughes, sister of the testator Earl C. Hughes, and F. Henry Ne Casek, who is attorney for Blanche V. Hughes, but who appeals in his own right as holder of an assignment of a one-third interest in his client's rights to her deceased brother's estate...

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