Roach

Roach v. Capra

Good Law
1970 Cal. App. LEXIS 2076·8 Cal. App. 3d 642·87 Cal. Rptr. 581
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 11, 1970Civ. No. 27151California2,356 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Molinari, J.

This is an appeal by plaintiff objectors from the probate court’s order of settlement of first and final account and distribution in the estate of Teresa Turino, deceased, and a cross-appeal by defendant executor from that part of said order awarding the attorney for the executor only part of his total fee requested for extraordinary services.

This appeal is the latest of a number of proceedings involving this estate. Plaintiffs, in an action commenced in the court below, obtained a decree establishing a constructive trust in their favor upon the assets of the estate based on a breach of a promise by decedent to make a will in their favor. 1 That judgment was affirmed on appeal. (1 Civ. 24511 (unreported).) The probate proceedings then resumed in the probate court. The executor filed his first and final account, report and petition for distribution. Plain *646 tiffs filed objections to the account. Following a hearing, the probate court made its order settling the account and ordering distribution. Pursuant to this order it was decreed that plaintiffs were to receive the net estate remaining after the expenditures approved by it. Included in said order was an award of…

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