ESTATE OF TRISSEL

Docket No. 26259.

208 Cal.App.2d 188 (1962)

25 Cal. Rptr. 205

Estate of JAMES R. TRISSEL, Deceased. MURIEL McELHINNEY, Petitioner and Appellant, v. WILLIAM R. TRISSEL, Objector and Respondent.

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

October 3, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Brooks and Don Edwin Raney for Petitioner and Appellant.

Samuel Hurwitz for Objector and Respondent.


FILES, J.

This is an appeal from an order appointing the decedent's son administrator with will annexed. The facts are not in dispute. The question is whether, as a matter of law, the son had priority over the appellant.

The will of the decedent was admitted to probate, without opposition, on December 27, 1960, and the executor qualified. The will bequeaths $500 to decedent's son, William, and the residue to appellant, who is not related by blood or marriage...

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