Soares v. Steidtmann

Holding

The court held that a widow’s quitclaim deed, executed after her husband’s death, effectively conveyed not only her vested title as an heir but also her inchoate right to petition the court to have the estate set aside to her under Probate Code section 645, and that this prior conveyance defeated the claim of a subsequent grantee who took a grant deed with actual notice of the prior deed.