Court Opinion

ID: 9866434
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 11:45:28.796435+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:22:31.281660
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING.
By the Court:
We determined the appeal in this case upon the authority of the case of Mrs. Smith v. Foley, et al. The respondents have petitioned for a rehearing based mainly upon the ground *292that in the Smith-Foley case it is not clear what the decision is with respect to the sufficiency of respondents’ answer as an objection to distribution being made to Mrs. Smith of the property in dispute.
In that case {ante, pages 197-216), the sufficiency of the answer of respondents as an objection under the statute to the distribution to Mrs. Smith of the one-half of the community property claimed by them as grantees was not raised by counsel, nor considered by the court. To remove any doubt that counsel ma}'- have on that point, we hold that when any person appears in a proceeding for partial distribution' of the estate of a decedent, claiming to be interested in the estate as the grantee of an heir, devisee or legatee, and claiming the property sought to be distributed as his own, and objects to such distribution being made to his grantor on these grounds, the distribution should be denied or suspended until the rights, of the contestant may be determined on final distribution or in some other appropriate proceeding.
The petition for rehearing is denied.