ESTATE OF PETERS

Docket No. 17235.

110 Cal.App.2d 723 (1952)

244 P.2d 88

Estate of MARIE W. PETERS, Deceased. ANNA FREDERICKA FUENNING et al., Appellants; SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Executor and Respondent, v. TOM C. CLARK, Attorney General of United States, as Successor to Alien Property Custodian, Contestant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

May 5, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Vaughan and Pat B. Trapp for Appellants.

Harold I. Baynton, Assistant Attorney General of United States, Director, Office of Alien Property; Walter S. Binns, United States Attorney, Clyde C. Downing, Assistant United States Attorney, Valentine C. Hammack, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, James D. Hill, George B. Searls, and John F. Cushman, Attorneys, Department of Justice, for Respondents.


McCOMB, J.

Petitioners appeal from a probate decree determining heirship and that decedent's estate escheated to the United States.

Facts: Marie W. Peters died on or about May 15, 1944. She left a will under the terms of which one third of her estate was bequeathed to two legatees who were residents of Germany; the remaining two thirds of the estate was bequeathed to unnamed issue of persons named in...

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