ESTATE OF WATHEN

Docket No. B099003.

56 Cal.App.4th 48 (1997)

Estate of MARGARET C. WATHEN, Deceased. WARNER STURTEVANT, as Trustee, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION, Objector and Appellant.

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

June 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

O'Melveny & Myers, David D. Watts, Diane E. Pritchard and Carol A. Johnston for Objector and Appellant.

Randall D. Fowler, Howard S. Klein, Moffitt, Weagant & Loo, Lance M. Weagant and John Loo for Petitioner and Respondent.


OPINION

VOGEL (Miriam A.), J.

We hold in this case that where, as here, a decedent's will attempts to specify the manner in which death taxes are to be allocated but does so in an ambiguous manner, extrinsic evidence is admissible to clarify the decedent's intent. We also hold that a direction in a will, as construed with the aid of extrinsic evidence, that all death taxes are to be...

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