Hall

Hall v. Mercer

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1960 Cal. LEXIS 141·4 Cal. Rptr. 1·54 Cal. 2d 39·351 P.2d 33
Supreme Court of CaliforniaApril 22, 1960L. A. No. 25176California3,138 words

Opinion

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Schauer, J.

C. Walter Hall, a successor trustee, and Clarellen Adams Weir, a beneficiary of a testamentary trust created by the will of Ellen M. Hill, deceased, appeal from an order resettling two fourteenth accounts, amendments, and *41 objections thereto. Ann Marie Mercer 1 as executrix of the will of John G. Hill, deceased, an income beneficiary of the trust, has also appealed from a portion of the same order.

On a prior appeal in this matter the trial court’s decision that the income beneficiaries of the trust (John G. Hill and certain charities) had waived their right to claim income earned during probate administration of the Ellen M. Hill estate was reversed. (Estate of Hill (1957), 149 Cal.App.2d 779 [ 309 P.2d 39 ].) Contentions on the present appeals are that the trial court, following the rehearing, erred in charging certain real estate taxes against corpus rather than against probate income, and also erred in its computation of the interest due to the trust beneficiaries on the detained probate income. We have concluded that the order appealed from should be affirmed insofar as it allocates taxes and computes net probate income, but reversed for redetermination of interest…

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