Case Name: In the Matter of the Estate of JOSEPH BAUQUIER, Deceased
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1891-03-28
Citations: 88 Cal. 478
Docket Number: No. 13979
Parties: In the Matter of the Estate of JOSEPH BAUQUIER, Deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 88
Pages: 478–479

Head Matter:
[No. 13979.
In Bank.
March 28, 1891.]
In the Matter of the Estate of JOSEPH BAUQUIER, Deceased.
Estates of Deceased Persons — Qualification by Administrator — Prejudice against Executrix—Public Administrator.—The fact that a son of a decedent is prejudiced against his sister, who was named in the will as executrix, is not ground for holding, upon a contest between the son and the public administrator for letters of administration, that the son was thereby disqualified from acting as administrator, and that the public administrator should be appointed in preference to him.
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Sacramento County denying an application for letters of administration.
The facts are stated in the opinion.
James B. Devine, and Johnson, Johnson & Johnson, for Appellant.
Robert T. Devlin, A. L. Hart, and J. C. Tubbs, for Respondent.

Opinion:
Temple, C.
Joseph Bauquier died, leaving an estate estimated at about twenty thousand dollars. In his will he named his daughter, Mrs. Rode, executrix. Letters having been refused her, Frank Bauquier, a son of the deceased, the public administrator, and one Smith severally applied for letters. At the hearing a contest was inaugurated between Bauquier and the public administrator. The court denied the application of Bauquier and Smith, and appointed the public administrator, and thereupon Bauquier took this appeal.
An appeal had been previously taken by Mrs. Rode from the order denying her application to be appointed executrix. Since the submission of this case here, that order has been reversed, and thereby the right of Mrs. Rode to be appointed executrix apparently settled. The matters involved in this appeal, therefore, have become practically of little consequence.
We think, however, it must be held in this case that it was error to hold that the fact that Frank Bauquier was prejudiced against his sister disqualified him to act as administrator. Therefore the order denying his application and appointing the public administrator should be reversed.
Vanclief, C., and Foote, C., concurred.
The Court. — For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion, the judgment and order appealed from are reversed.