ESTATE OF CLEAVER

Docket No. 61707.

126 Cal.App.3d 341 (1981)

Estate of NINA CLEAVER, Deceased. SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK, as Executor, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES, Objector and Appellant; BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN LOS ANGELES, Claimant and Respondent.

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

December 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Brandlin & McAllister and Ray E. McAllister for Objector and Appellant.

No appearance for Petitioner and Respondent.

O'Melveny & Myers, Solomon M. Kamm and Barton H. Thompson, Jr., for Claimant and Respondent.


OPINION

COMPTON, J.

Nina Cleaver executed a holographic will in 1954. She was 66 at the time. She died in 1978, at the age of 90 and the will was admitted to probate.

The will purported to divide her estate among four beneficiaries in equal amounts. We are here concerned with that provision of the will which left one-quarter of the estate to "The Archbishop of Los Angeles...

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