ESTATE OF LACKEY

Docket No. 37483.

17 Cal.App.3d 247 (1971)

94 Cal. Rptr. 524

Estate of GEORGE LACKEY, Deceased. ETHEL MONTGOMERY, as Executrix, etc., et al., Petitioners and Appellants, v. MAURINE BARCAL, Objector and Appellant. PATRICIA CARSON, Objector and Respondent. BERTHA CLIFTON, Claimant and Appellant.

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

April 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Miller & McKechnie, Robert Clifton and James A. McKechnie for Petitioners and Appellants and for Claimant and Appellant.

Gilbert, Thompson, Kelly, Crowley & Jennett, William D. Jennett and Jean Wunderlich for Objector and Appellant and for Objector and Respondent.


OPINION

COBEY, Acting P.J.

These are cross-appeals challenging the incongruous result that two inter vivos gifts by a testator, George Lackey, to two of his predeceased wife's cousins in the amounts of their legacies had different legal consequences. As regards Mrs. Maurine Barcal the trial court found that her legacy of $20,000 in George Lackey's will was adeemed by the lifetime...

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