IN RE: the ESTATE OF George H. KEMBALL (1936)

Supreme Court of California.

IN RE: the ESTATE OF George H. KEMBALL, Deceased. Everett W. MATTOON, County Counsel, and Ben H. Brown, Public Administrator, Petitioners and Appellants, v. Violet Mande KEMBALL et al., Legatees and Respondents. ESTATE OF Stella B. BOULTER, Deceased. ESTATE OF Gustaf Herman SMEDMAN. Deceased. ESTATE OF Frank R. BROWN, Deceased. ESTATE OF Charles A. WILLIAMS, Deceased. ESTATE OF Saul WINCHEL, Deceased. ESTATE OF Wilbur F. JONES, Deceased. ESTATE OF John O. WARREN, Deceased. ESTATE OF Gretchen RICE, Deceased. ESTATE OF Hugh P. BROWN, Deceased. ESTATE OF Minnie BUSKER, Deceased. ESTATE OF Miles STAFFORD, Deceased. ESTATE OF Alexander E. BISCHOFF, Deceased. ESTATE OF Mary KINNE, Deceased. ESTATE OF Otto E. PETTERSON, Deceased. ESTATE OF Charlotte MASSAGER, Deceased. ESTATE OF Walter M. FILLERBROWN, Deceased. ESTATE OF Peter GEIREMAN, Deceased. ESTATE OF Samuel QUEEN, Deceased. ESTATE OF Alpheus B. JEFFREY, Deceased. ESTATE OF George H. HESSEL, Deceased. ESTATE OF Jeanette PAPLOW, Deceased.

L. A. 15691–15710, 15753, 15834.

Decided: September 04, 1936

L.A. 15691: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Elvon Musick and Howard L. Burrell, both of Los Angeles, for respondents. L.A. 15692: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Edith McCauley, of New York City, for respondents. L.A. 15693: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Ida C. Larson, of San Francisco, and Emma Mickelson, of White Bear, Minn., for respondents. L.A. 15694: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Mary A. Boyd, of Manchester, N. H., Grace Cole, and William N. Brown, of Manchester, N. H., for respondents. L.A. 15695: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Louis Thomsen, and Charles S. Conner, both of Los Angeles, for respondents. L.A. 15696: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Conor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Marshall Stimson, and Noel Edwards, both of Los Angeles, for respondents. L.A. 15697: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel., all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Eva A. Eaton, of Springfield, Mass., for respondents. L.A. 15698: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Mrs. S. C. Hedwich and Erwin W. Saylor, both of Topeka, Kan., and Mrs. Sabena Hale, of Los Angeles, for respondents. L.A. 15699: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. S. T. Hankey, of Los Angeles, for respondents. L.A. 15700, 15701, 15702, 15703: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. U. S. Webb, Atty. Gen., for respondents. L.A. 15704, 15706, 15709, 15710: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. U. S. Webb, Atty. Gen., and L. G. Campbell, Deputy Atty. Gen., for respondents. L.A. 15705: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Harold J. Peterson and Herbert W. Peterson, both of Somerville, Mass., for respondents. L.A. 15707: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Edward T. Fillebrown and Charles A. Fillebrown, both of Brookline, Mass., and Carter Fillebrown and Mary Louise Fillebrown, both of Wollaston, Mass., for respondents. L.A. 15708: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Emma Petrie, of Petersburg, Mich., John Guerman, of River Rouge, Mich., and Margaret Mary Guerman, of Lima, Ohio, for respondents. L.A. 15753: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Peter Hoessel, of Swift Current, Sask., Canada, Fred Hoessel, of Barker, N.Y., John Hoessel, of Buffalo, N.Y., and Karl A. Hoessel, of Milwaukee, Wis., for respondents. L.A. 15834: Everett W. Mattoon, Co. Counsel, J. H. O'Connor, Asst. Co. Counsel, and Ernest Purdum, Deputy Co. Counsel, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Anne Kelly, of Grand Rapids, Mich., August Paplow, of Cowley, Wyo., William O. Hagelgans, of Grand Rapids, Mich., Jeanette Strobel and Elizabeth McDowell, both of Cleveland, Ohio, John B. Paplow, of East Cleveland, Ohio, Charles Paplow, of Tacoma, Wash., Carrie McFarland, of East Cleveland, Ohio, Walter Paplow and Edward Paplow, both of Cleveland, Ohio, and Herman Paplow, of Spokane, Wash., for respondents.