Coppinger v. Rice

Citations

• 33 Cal. 408

Syllabus

<p>Probate Laws—To what Estates Applicable.—The estates of persons who died before the passage of the Probate Laws of this State, whether dying testate or intestate, and whether leaving adult or minor heirs, are not within the operation of said laws, but vested in the heirs or devisees under the Mexican law.</p> <p>Mexican Law of Descents.—Under the Mexican law, on the death of an intestate, the heirs succeeded immediately to the estate, and became personally responsible for the debts of the deceased j this rule applied equally whether the heirs were adults or minors, but no administration, in the common law sense, was needed or could be had at any time.</p> <p>Act of April 2d, 1866.—The Act passed April 2d, 1866, (Stats. 1866, p. 824,) has no application to the estates of persons dying before the adoption of our probate system.</p> <p>Tax Sales.—One whose duty it was to pay the taxes upon real property cannot gain an advantage, in respect to the title, by allowing the same to be sold for taxes and buying it in himself or by buying it from a stranger who bought it at the sale, (jl/oss v. Shearer, 25 Cal. 45, is cited as authority.)</p>