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ESTATE OF PITTMAN

Docket No. 21109.

104 Cal.App.3d 288 (1980)

163 Cal. Rptr. 527

Estate of CAROLINA B. PITTMAN, Deceased. SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK, as Trustee, Petitioner and Respondent, v. GEORGE WILLIAM GORIS et al., Claimants and Respondents; SAMUEL JAMES TUFFREE et al., Objectors and Appellants.

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

April 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Marjorie Mize LeGaye, Launer, Chaffee, Ward & Orman, Robert E. Ward, L. Richard Rawls, Alvin W. Beardsley, Howser, Gertner & Brown and David L. Sanner for Objectors and Appellants.

No appearance for Petitioner and Respondent.

Edward H. Stone for Claimants and Respondents.

OPINION

TAMURA, J.

This appeal involves the right of adult adoptees to take under a testamentary class gift made under a will executed in 1914 to the "child" or "children" of the adopting parents.

Carolina B. Pittman (decedent, testatrix) died in 1915 leaving a will executed in 1914 which was probated in the Superior Court of Orange County. The decree of final distribution determined that decedent left the following heirs...

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