ESTATE OF GAREY

Docket No. 26411.

214 Cal.App.2d 39 (1963)

29 Cal. Rptr. 98

Estate of MARTHA J. GAREY, Deceased. BEVERLY DUFFILL MERRILL, Petitioner and Appellant, v. THE MOTHER CHURCH, THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, et al., Claimants and Respondents.

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

March 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp and Peery Price for Petitioner and Appellant.

Lindstrom, Robison & Lovell, Lindstrom, Robison, Lovell & King, Harris Robison, Jack R. Lovell and Arthur W. Eckman for Claimants and Respondents.


ASHBURN, J.

In this heirship proceeding petitioner-appellant, Beverly Duffill Merrill, seeks to establish that she is an heir of her paternal grandmother, Martha J. Garey, who died testate in 1960. Petitioner claims to be a pretermitted heir.

Petitioner's mother divorced her natural father in 1931, and married Gregor Merrill in 1933. The natural father, a son of the decedent, died in 1934. Gregor Merrill adopted petitioner in 1939 when she was 10 years old...

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