SEI FUJII v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Docket No. L.A. 21149.

38 Cal.2d 718 (1952)

242 P.2d 617

SEI FUJII, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 17, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Marion Wright and Owen E. Kupfer for Appellant.

A.L. Wirin, Fred Okrand and Will Maslow, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Fred N. Howser and Edmund G. Brown, Attorneys General, Everett W. Mattoon, Assistant Attorney General, and John F. Hassler, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

Ralph G. Lindstrom and Lindstrom & Bartlett, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


GIBSON, C.J.

Plaintiff, an alien Japanese who is ineligible to citizenship under our naturalization laws, appeals from a judgment declaring that certain land purchased by him in 1948 had escheated to the state. There is no treaty between this country and Japan which confers upon plaintiff the right to own land, and the sole question presented on this appeal is the validity of the California Alien Land Law.1

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