ESTATE OF PUTNAM

Docket No. 23692.

175 Cal.App.2d 781 (1959)

346 P.2d 841

Estate of CARTER EVEREST PUTNAM, Deceased. HAZEL H. PUTNAM, as Executrix, etc., Appellant.

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

December 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richards, Watson, Smith & Van Petten for Appellant.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, William E. Lamoreaux, Assistant County Counsel, and Edward A. Nugent, Deputy County Counsel, as Amici Curiae in support of order.


FORD, J.

Appellant, as executrix, bases her appeal upon the failure of the superior court to make a determination, pursuant to her petition for instructions, that property inventoried in the estate was community property.

In her petition filed June 9, 1958, appellant alleged that the decedent died on April 16, 1957, and that she was appointed executrix on November 14, 1957. She further alleged that at the time of the death the decedent and the petitioner were...

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