Estate of Rodda

Estate of ETHEL A. RODDA, Deceased. ESTELLE KRATZ et al., Appellants, v. CHARLES HENRY WESTON et al., Respondents.

COUNSEL

John P. Doran for Appellants.

Otto A. Hoecker for Respondents. [175 Cal. App. 2d 611]

OPINION

VAN DYKE, P. J.

The Superior Court in and for the City and County of San Francisco made a final decree of distribution and an order settling the final account in the above entitled estate. Estelle Kratz and Linda Koch appealed. Thereafter they filed in the superior court a notice of motion to vacate the decree. This motion was denied and they appealed. The matters were transferred to this court. Thereafter respondent Weston filed herein his notice of motion to dismiss the appeals. Before the hearing there was filed herein by appellants a document titled "Verified Request for Disqualification," wherein appellants, through their attorney of record, John P. Doran, Esq., "petitioned" for the disqualification of all members of this court. A perusal of the verified petition discloses that it states no facts whatever as a basis for any claim that any member of this court is disqualified to act herein.

[1] In view of the failure of the petition to allege any facts from which even an inference of disqualification could be drawn, this court has decided to ignore the petition and to order it stricken from the files. (People v. Darby, 114 Cal. App. 2d 412, 439 [250 P.2d 743]; Keating v. Superior Court, 45 Cal. 2d 440, 443 [289 P.2d 209].)

[2] The notice of motion to dismiss the appeals states the ground of the motion to be that the appeals are sham, frivolous and moot in that neither Estelle Kratz nor Linda Koch has any interest in or to the estate of Rodda; that contests of the will of decedent filed by them have been dismissed on the ground they are not interested parties, and the orders and judgments of dismissal have become final. It appears that these assertions are true and that it has been finally adjudicated that appellants have no right to participate in probate proceedings in the Rodda estate; that they are mere interlopers. The motions to dismiss the appeals must therefore be granted.

It is ordered that the "Verified Request for Disqualification" filed herein by John P. Doran, Esq., be stricken from the files and that the appeals herein be dismissed.

Peek, J., and Schottky, J., concurred.