Foster

Foster v. Foster

Good Law
170 Cal. App. 2d 314·1959 Cal. App. LEXIS 2211·338 P.2d 625
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMay 11, 1959Civ. No. 9606California1,332 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Warne, J.

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion for change of venue, and overruling appellant’s objections to the jurisdiction of the trial court.

The deceased, Mary Ellen Foster, died at a convalescent home in Sacramento at the age of 81 years. Two of her sons, the respondents herein, offered for probate in the county of Sacramento her last will and testament, wherein they were named as coexecutors. Another son, the appellant, opposed the petition for probate and made a motion for change of venue to the county of Yolo on the ground that at the time of decedent’s death she was a resident of that county. (Prob. Code, § 301.) It is uncontradicted that for many years prior to June, 1957, the decedent had been a resident and a taxpayer of the county of Yolo, although she maintained two inactive savings accounts in banks in Sacramento. In May or June, 1957, decedent suffered a heart attack and as the result thereof was confined in a hospital located in Woodland, Yolo County, known as the Woodland Clinic, for treatment. During her treatment at the Woodland Clinic, she told her son, L. B. Foster, one of the respondents herein, that she would no longer be able to take care of herself or…

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