Hartman
Hartman v. Burford
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Conley, J.
The legal relationships of the various parties interested in this probate proceeding are again before this court. Once before the Fifth District Court of Appeal has passed upon certain rights of the parties, the opinion being reported as Estate of Miller, 212 Cal.App.2d 284 [ 27 Cal.Rptr. 909 ]; it will be unnecessary to repeat in detail all of the factual matters set forth in that opinion.
Although there are only one reporter’s transcript and one clerk’s transcript, there are in fact four appeals which the court must dispose of. Miriam Miller Hartman appealed from the decree of the probate court settling the second, third, fourth, and supplemental accounts and reports, allowing statutory fees and fees for extraordinary services and for final distribution. Mrs. Hartman also appealed from the order of the court relative to the rights and duties of the *893 trustee, Burke E. Burford, the scrivener of the will, who is also executor of the estate. There is also a cross-appeal by Charles Davison Field, a grandson of the testatrix, from those portions of the order of the court of September 20, 1963, relative to the distribution to the trustee for the benefit of Miriam Miller Hartman…