ESTATE OF CORNELIOUS

Docket No. L.A. 31631.

35 Cal.3d 461 (1984)

674 P.2d 245

198 Cal. Rptr. 543

Estate of WILLIS CORNELIOUS, Deceased. TRUDY ANN HALL, Petitioner and Appellant, v. HETTIE TAYLOR, Petitioner and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

January 26, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Lloyd Edward Tooks for Petitioner and Appellant.

Clifford C. Caldwell and Pinney & Caldwell for Petitioner and Respondent.


OPINION

KAUS, J.

Appellant Trudy Ann Hall challenges the constitutionality of the rule of Evidence Code section 621, subdivision (a), that "the issue of a wife cohabiting with her husband, who is not impotent or sterile, is conclusively presumed to be a child of the marriage."1 Hall contends that application of the presumption to bar her from proving that Willis...

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