DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. WOLVERTON

No. 16295.

298 F.2d 684 (1961)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. David R. WOLVERTON, Administrator of the Estate of Albert J. Smith, deceased, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H. Thomas Sisk, Asst. Corp. Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Jerome I. Levinson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Mr. William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., Alan S. Rosenthal, Atty., Dept. of Justice, and David R. Wolverton, Bethesda, Md., were on the brief, for appellee United States.

Before WASHINGTON, DANAHER and BURGER, Circuit Judges.


WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This case involves competing claims of the United States and the District of Columbia to escheat of the moneys owned by an inmate of the United States Soldiers' Home who died in 1959, intestate and without legal heirs or next of kin. The Soldiers' Home is located in the District of Columbia, and all parties agree that the inmate here involved — Albert J. Smith — was a resident of the...

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