Pearce

Filed 8/4/21; Modified and certified for pub. 8/31/21 (order attached)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

EVERETT EARLE PEARCE, JR., as Trustee, etc. et al., F080403

Plaintiffs and Appellants, (Super. Ct. No. S1501PB60869)

v.

OPINION

CHARLES BRIGGS, JR., Individually and as Trustee, etc. et al.,

Objectors and Respondents.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Kern County. Andrew B. Kendall, Commissioner. Darling & Wilson, Joshua G. Wilson, Anton H. Labrentz, and Nathaniel J. Oleson, for Plaintiffs and Appellants. LeBeau-Thelen and Andrew K. Sheffield, for Objectors and Respondents. -ooOoo- This is a probate matter involving two groups of rival claimants regarding two parcels of real property in Bakersfield. Each group of claimants filed a petition to establish their claims on the properties, and opposed the petition filed by the other group. Both petitions were tried concurrently in a bench trial, resulting in a ruling and judgment in favor of one group of claimants as to both properties. We affirm the trial court’s…