Estate of Huntington
Opinion
Opinion
Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz, George A. Hart, Jr., Frank C. Charvat, John R. McDonough, Boyle, Atwill & Robinson, James B. Boyle, Kendig, Stockwell & Gleason, Eugene L. Stockwell, Jr., and John M. Burnett for Claimants and Appellants.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, J. Stanley Mullin, Wesley L. Nutten III, Laurence K. Gould, Jr., MacDonald, Halsted & Laybourne, A. Stevens Halsted, Jr., and Judith R. Gandel for Claimants and Respondents.
No appearance for Petitioner and Respondent.
OPINION
JEFFERSON (Bernard), J.
These are petitions brought by Security Pacific Bank, a testamentary trustee, to have determined the identity of beneficiaries of two testamentary trusts the Marian Huntington Fund and the Residuum Fund both established by the will of Henry E. Huntington, and for instructions.
Claiming to be the beneficiaries are John Brockway Huntington and Elizabeth Anne Huntington Davis, the adopted children of Marian Huntington. Opposing their claim are nephews and nieces of Marian Huntington; they are Edwards H. Metcalf, Henry E. Huntington II, Howard Huntington, Jr., David Huntington, Jane Huntington Kuska and Mary Huntington Burns. [1]