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REDKE v. SILVERTRUST

Docket No. L.A. 29886.

6 Cal.3d 94 (1971)

490 P.2d 805

98 Cal. Rptr. 293

MITZI LEE REDKE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ABRAHAM SILVERTRUST, as Executor, etc., and Co-trustee, etc., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 24, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ervin, Cohen & Jessup, Allan Browne, O'Melveny & Myers, Philip F. Westbrook, Jr., Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin and Herman F. Selvin for Defendants and Appellants.

Samuel Reisman, Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz and Clarence S. Hunt for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Edward L. Lascher, Richard E. Rader and Henry E. Kappler as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BURKE, J.

Plaintiff Mitzi Lee Redke brought an action in Los Angeles Superior Court to enforce the terms of an oral agreement allegedly made for her benefit between her mother Ann Hayden, and her stepfather, Samuel Hayden, both of whom are now deceased, whereupon Sam agreed to bequeath certain of Ann's separate property to Mitzi. Defendants, who are the executors of Sam's estate, co-trustees of a trust created by him, and...

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