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ESTATE OF NEWMAN

Docket No. C015964.

25 Cal.App.4th 472 (1994)

30 Cal. Rptr. 547

Estate of JESS STANLEY NEWMAN, Deceased. CECIL C. FINN, Petitioner and Appellant, v. CHARLES NEWMAN, Objector and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

May 31, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

McMurchie, Foley, Brandenburger, Weill & Lenahan and Stephen A. Brandenburger for Petitioner and Appellant.

Meckfessel, Hopkins & Byrd and Kenneth M. Hopkins for Objector and Respondent.

OPINION

DAVIS, J.

This appeal involves the application of the so-called in-law inheritance statute, former Probate Code section 229,1 to the distribution of the estate of Jess Stanley Newman, who died on July 29, 1983. Cecil C. Finn, a nephew of Jess's predeceased wife Frances Elizabeth Newman, filed a petition alleging Jess's entire probate estate should go to Frances's blood relatives pursuant to section...

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