ESTATE OF THORNDIKE

Docket No. 43721.

90 Cal.App.3d 468 (1979)

153 Cal. Rptr. 487

Estate of CHARLES THORNDIKE, Deceased. KENNETH CORY, as State Controller, et al., Petitioners and Respondents, v. EDITH J. THORNDIKE, as Executrix, etc., Objector and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

March 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen and Robert A. Mills for Objector and Appellant.

Myron Siedorf and Edwin Rosenthal for Petitioners and Respondents.


OPINION

DEAL, J.*

Appellant, Edith Jewell Thorndike, as executrix of the will of Charles Thorndike, deceased, has appealed from an order fixing inheritance tax.

The issue on appeal is whether the decedent-donee's appointment to his daughter, Mary Elaine Ware (a taker in default), of a lesser interest than she would have received in default of appointment...

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