Estate of NINA CLEAVER, Deceased. SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK, as Executor, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES, Objector and Appellant; BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN LOS ANGELES, Claimant and Respondent
126 Cal. App. 3d 341 ·
California Court of Appeal · Filed
Published · citable
Holding
The court held that extrinsic evidence was properly admitted and relied upon to resolve a latent ambiguity in a holographic will, and that such evidence conclusively demonstrated the testator’s intent to bequeath a portion of her estate to the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Los Angeles.
Statutes construed
- PROB § 102