Estate of Burton, 64 Cal. 428

Estate of Burton

64 Cal. 428 | Cal. | 1884

Myrick, J.

The appeal in this case is from an order setting apart a homestead, and from an order refusing a new trial. The order setting apart the homestead was made and entered June 27, 1883; the notice of appeal was served September 18, 1883, more than sixty days after the order was made. (§ 1715, Code Civ. Proc.; Estate of Harland, 64 Cal. 379.) The appeal from this order is therefore dismissed.

As to the appeal from the order denying motion for new trial, it would, doubtless, be competent for a court sitting in probate to examine into the title to a given parcel of the real estate mentioned in the 'inventory as a basis for the exercise of its discretion in selecting one parcel or the other as a homestead; but, *429for the purpose of adjudicating upon the title as between adverse claimants, it has no jurisdiction. It determines, merely, that the parcel named is selected from the estate of the deceased (whatever his interest therein may have been), and who are the persons entitled to the benefit of the homestead selection. How far the title claimed by the contestants in this case depended for its validity upon title derived by Mrs. Burton since her husband’s death, and how far it depended upon her interest in the estate of her husband as heir or survivor, was not for the Probate Court to determine. Title to real estate cannot be tried in such proceeding. Order affirmed.

Sharpstein, J., and Thornton, J., concurred.