ESTATE OF SANDERSON

Docket No. L.A. 26462.

58 Cal.2d 522 (1962)

375 P.2d 37

25 Cal. Rptr. 69

Estate of ELMER L. SANDERSON, Deceased. BALBENA S. SYSTER, as Administratrix, etc., Contestant and Appellant, v. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGO et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Kaiser, Jeremiah F. O'Neill, Jr., and John E. Nolan for Contestant and Appellant.

Howard S. Dattan, Victor E. Urias and Quintin Whelan for Defendants and Respondents.


SCHAUER, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition to determine heirship, approving and settling accounts of the executor, ordering payment of fees, and decreeing distribution of the estate to certain charitable beneficiaries named in decedent's will. We have concluded that the trial court correctly determined that by reason of a substitutional dispositive clause of the will contestant-appellant may not avoid the charitable gifts, and that on the...

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