Court Opinion

ID: 9624020
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:48:46.772223+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:37.846072
License: Public Domain

SHINN, P. J.
I concur in the judgment. There were six bequests of stocks, all but one in odd lots, followed by a general bequest to the same beneficiary of “all other stocks in my name that I have not listed here,” and still other bequests, both specific and general. Testatrix then owned the described stocks. If the will had consisted only of the bequests of the stocks there would have been, in my opinion, six specific bequests and one general. But, except for three bequests of one dollar each, Mary Fox was left the entire estate, and this clearly expressed intention of testatrix should prevail over isolated and less positive provisions which, alone, would indicate a contrary intention as to portions of the estate. I do not regard any of the California cases as closely in point.
Vallée, J., did not participate herein.