Helene Marceau Sidebotham v. W. L. Robison, Administrator of the Estate of Robert Sidebotham, Deceased, and Robert Sidebotham and James Sidebotham

Good Law

216 F.2d 816

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJanuary 12, 195514192_1California6,767 words

Opinion

Yankwich, J.

On October 10,1950, the appellant filed an action in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the City and County of San Francisco, in which she sued Phil C. Katz, the Administrator of the Estate of Robert Sidebotham, deceased, and Robert Sidebotham and James Sidebotham, who claim to be heirs at law, to quiet title, for an accounting and injunction. Phil C. Katz was the Public Administrator, who has been replaced in office by W. L. Robison.

In the first cause of action, the appellant alleged that she was married to Sidebotham in a ceremonial marriage on May 30, 1928, and was divorced on November 14, 1946, the marriage being “dissolved by a court of competent jurisdiction”, that the matrimonial domicile of the appellant and decedent “was at all times, the State of California”. This count of the complaint stated that, during the marriage, the deceased accumulated real and personal property within the State of California and elsewhere having a total value in excess of $100,-000.00, that this was community property of the marriage in which she had a present and existing interest and the right to immediate possession by reason of survivorship of the property. By reason…

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Parties

Helene Marceau SIDEBOTHAM
Plaintiff
W. L. ROBISON, Administrator of the Estate of Robert Sidebotham, Deceased, and Robert Sidebotham and James Sidebotham
Defendant

Judges

Healy
Pope
Yankwich

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