Estate of PEARL PHYLLIS TAFF, Deceased. RUBY SALEEN et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CLARENCE AULMAN, as Executor, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents

Holding

The court held that the trial court properly admitted extrinsic evidence, including the testator’s oral instructions to her attorney and a personal letter, to reveal and resolve a latent ambiguity in the will’s use of the term "my heirs," thereby effectuating the decedent’s clear intent to exclude her predeceased husband’s relatives from her residuary estate.