ESTATE OF MASON

Docket No. L.A. 27733.

62 Cal.2d 213 (1965)

397 P.2d 1005

42 Cal. Rptr. 13

Estate of MARY MASON, Deceased. SECURITY FIRST NATIONAL BANK, as Executor, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. ROBERT T. FAIRBANK, Objector and Appellant; KATHERINE McKENNA, Beneficiary and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ardy V. Barton for Objector and Appellant.

Griffith & Thornburgh, Charles B. Voorhis, II and Yale B. Griffith for Petitioner and Respondent and Beneficiary and Respondent.


TRAYNOR, C.J.

Robert T. Fairbank appeals from a decree of final distribution of the estate of Mary Mason. The testatrix devised her home and most of its contents to Robert's mother if she outlived the testatrix and if not, then to Robert. Robert's mother predeceased the testatrix.

Several years after executing her will, the testatrix became mentally incompetent, and the Security First National Bank was appointed...

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