ESTATE OF CALLNON

Docket No. Sac. 7835.

70 Cal.2d 150 (1969)

449 P.2d 186

74 Cal. Rptr. 250

Estate of E.W. CALLNON, Deceased. JOHN G. CALLNON, Individually and as Trustee, etc., Petitioner and Appellant, v. MAXINE WINROTT, as Administratrix, etc., Contestant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White, Harber, Fort & Schei, Lawrence A. Schei and Gene Pendergast, Jr., for Petitioner and Appellant.

Chickering & Gregory and Charles G. Stephenson for Contestant and Respondent.


SULLIVAN, J.

This is an appeal from a portion of a judgment declaring the termination of a testamentary trust upon the death of decedent's son, the life beneficiary, and ordering distribution of the balance of the corpus to decedent's sister. The crucial issue confronting us is whether under the provisions of the decree of final distribution entered in the probate proceedings over 30 years ago, such remainder should go, as the trial court held, to the legal representative...

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