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This is an appeal from a portion of an order determining the interests in decedent’s estate.

Stella Rust Delany, who died June 16, 1961, left an estate of the approximate value of $67,000, which included a dwelling house (the family home) and the furniture therein at Avalon, California.

Her formal typewritten will of January 16, 1961, (apparently prepared by an attorney), and a formal typewritten codicil of February 16, 1961, (apparently prepared by an attorney), and a holographic codicil of June 15, 1961, were admitted to probate. No question is presented herein as to the due execution or genuineness of those documents.

The will states: She is a widow. She leaves no issue of her body. She gives her diamond ring to her sister Betty Knapp. She gives the following sums of money to the following named persons: $5,000 to Coral Home; $5,000 to Jim Johnston; $1,000 apiece to: Dick Peek, Jo Ann Lawson, Howard Trudeau, and Zackary Peek. $500 apiece to Donald Doss and John Moore. $2,000 to St. Catherine’s Church at Avalon. $2,500 to the Jesuit Seminary Association, on the condition that it is not awarded anything in a certain lawsuit. $3,500 to Marcus L. Roberts. She gives to Betty…