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ESTATE OF BECKER

Docket No. 32679.

270 Cal.App.2d 31 (1969)

75 Cal. Rptr. 359

Estate of C. MARIE BECKER, Deceased. NELLE M. PRATT et al., Petitioners and Respondents, v. THOMAS C. LYNCH, as Attorney General, etc., Objector and Appellant; EMILY BARBARA BECKER, Claimant and Respondent.

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

February 21, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, and Carl Boronkay, Deputy Attorney General, for Objector and Appellant.

Poindexter & Barger, Henry J. Merdink and Alfred B. Doutre for Petitioners and Respondents.

Smith & Davis and Frank R. Davis for Claimant and Respondent.

FLEMING, J.

The Attorney General, as protector of charitable trusts, appeals a judgment determining that $25,000 in the estate of C. Marie Becker passed by intestacy to Emily B. Becker, the testatrix' next of kin, and not to a trust created by the will. The principal issue is whether the testatrix' will disposed of all her property or only part of it.

At the age of 82 Miss Becker wrote the following holographic will:

"LAST WILL OF C. MARIE BECKER...

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