ESTATE OF SCOTT

Docket No. 26649.

217 Cal.App.2d 111 (1963)

31 Cal. Rptr. 438

Estate of SIDNEY C. SCOTT, Deceased. FLORENCE HUGHES, as Executrix, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, Objector and Appellant; ANGELES MESA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Legatee and Respondent.

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

June 11, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Marion Wright and Owen E. Kupfer for Objector and Appellant.

Jess F. High for Petitioner and Respondent.

Robert McWilliams for Legatee and Respondent.


FILES, J.

This appeal has been taken on behalf of a charitable corporation whose bequest was reduced under Probate Code, section 41,1 because the charitable bequests collectively exceeded one-third of the estate. Although the appeal is from the entire decree of distribution and order settling the executrix' account, no questions are argued in the briefs except as to the application of section 41.

The will of the decedent was executed...

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