Case Name: Estate of ANNIE SYKES, Deceased
Court: California Superior Court
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1899-06-24
Citations: 6 Coffey 503
Docket Number: 
Parties: Estate of ANNIE SYKES, Deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of Decisions in Probate, by James V. Coffey, Judge of the Superior Court in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California. Reported and Annotated by Peter V. Ross and Jeremiah V. Coffey
Volume: 6
Pages: 503–504

Head Matter:
Estate of ANNIE SYKES, Deceased.
Probate Homestead—Court must Set Apart.—In a proper case the court must, on the application of a surviving husband, set apart a probate homestead; there is no discretion.
Albert H. Elliott, for applicant.
Frank R. Whitcomb, John C. Boyle, opposed.

Opinion:
COFFEY, J.
Annie Sykes died February 26, 1899, leaving her surviving her husband, petitioner herein, and several children, all of whom have attained their majority. She left property described in the petition herein and returned in the inventory on file, appraised at the sum of $2.250. The property was the domicile of deceased and petitioner. Said property was the separate property of deceased. Furniture and other household goods in said domicile also belonged to said deceased. There is no community property of petitioner and decedent. No homestead.was declared on said property during the liftime of decedent, and petitioner has made no other application for a homestead herein.
The court must set apart a probate homestead and there is no discretion: Code Civ. Proc. 1465; Estate of Green, 1 Cof. Prob. Dec. 444; Estate of Tate, 1 Cof. Prob. Dec. 217; Estate of Ballentine, 45 Cal. 696; Estate of McCauley, 50 Cal. 546; Mawson v. Mawson, 50 Cal. 539; In re Lahiff, 86 Cal. 151, 24 Pac. 850.