Bauer

Petitioners herein invoke the power of the writ of mandate as the most recent of the several forms of attack made by them during several years last past against the executrix (who will hereafter be referred to as executors) of the estate of Emile Bauer, deceased. (Estate of Bauer, 199 Cal. 98 [248 Pac. 507]; Bauer v. Bauer, 201 Cal. 267 [ 256 Pac. 820 ]; Bauer v. Bauer, 201 Cal. 770 [ 256 Pac. 822 ]; Bauer v. Bauer, 201 Cal. 771 [ 256 Pac. 822 ].) Other proceedings taken are not included in the above list.

The representatives of said estate, Lily M. Bauer and Lloyd C. Bauer, are, respectively, the stepmother and half-brother of petitioner Hamilton A. Bauer. Petitioner Hambla C. Bauer, a minor, is the daughter of said Hamilton A. Bauer. It has been the insistent claim of petitioner Hamilton A. Bauer since the death of his father, Emile Bauer, that certain stocks, issues of the Union Oil Company of California, Central Oil Company of California and Occidental Life Insurance Company, formerly owned by him, but transferred by him to his said wife and son Lloyd prior to his death, were procured by them by imposition, fraud and undue influence practiced by his wife an"d son Lloyd at a…