ESTATE OF SCHLUTTIG

Docket No. L.A. 20914.

36 Cal.2d 416 (1950)

224 P.2d 695

Estate of BERTHA SCHLUTTIG, Deceased. BERTHA CLEMENTS et al., Respondents, v. J. HOWARD McGRATH, Attorney General, etc., Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 12, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold I. Baynton and David L. Bazelon, Assistant United States Attorneys General, Ernest A. Tolin and James M. Carter, United States Attorneys, Clyde C. Downing, Assistant United States Attorney, Joseph W. Bishop, Jr., J. Roger Wollenberg, Joseph Laufer, Valentine C. Hammack, George B. Searls, Lillian C. Scott, Percy Barshay, James L. Morrisson and Isaac N. Groner for Appellant.

Jerome Politzer, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Moore, Howorth & Trinkaus, Henry T. Moore and Walter R. Trinkaus for Respondents.

Dana Latham, Forrest A. Betts and William J. Currer, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


EDMONDS, J.

In a proceeding brought to determine rights to take property under the will of Bertha Schluttig, the superior court found that certain residuary legatees named by her were citizens of Germany or Austria. With a further finding that, at the time of her death, those countries did not grant to citizens of the United States the reciprocal rights required under section 259 of the Probate Code, the court held that...

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