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ESTATE OF GERMOND

Docket No. L.A. 29792.

4 Cal.3d 573 (1971)

483 P.2d 769

94 Cal. Rptr. 153

Estate of ELSIE WELLS GERMOND, Deceased. SALVATION ARMY, Petitioner and Appellant, v. ALTA EVERETT et al., Claimants and Respondents; LOS ANGELES COUNTY HEART ASSOCIATION et al., Claimants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 21, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Burris & Lagerlof, Meserve, Mumper & Hughes, Cromwell Warner, Jr., John Deacon, Poindexter & Barger, Cosgrove, Cramer, Rindge & Barnum, Latham & Watkins, John H. Balluff, Nossaman, Waters, Scott, Krueger & Riordan, William L. Scott and Melvin Swift, Jr., for Petitioner and Appellant and for Claimants and Appellants.

Thomas C. Lynch and Evelle J. Younger, Attorneys General, and Carl Boronkay, Deputy Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner and Appellant and Claimants and Appellants.

Robert W. D'Angelo, Clarence Hansen, Randall Wenker, Larwill & Wolfe, Alan D. Block and Charles W. Wolfe for Claimants and Respondents.

OPINION

WRIGHT, C.J.

Elsie Wells Germond died testate on June 9, 1962. Her will left all her property to her sister, Jessie E. Nulsen, and provided that "In the event of the demise of my sister ... prior to distribution to her of my estate ..., my Executor [Earl A. Everett] ... shall convert my estate and the whole thereof into cash, and from the proceeds thereof, pay to and distribute the same [to 10 named charities in specified...

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