ESTATE OF SHEGA


38 Wis.2d 269 (1968)

ESTATE OF SHEGA: STATE, Appellant, v. WARNIMONT, Administrator, and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

February 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant the cause was argued by Roy G. Mita, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general.

For the respondents there was a brief and oral argument by Edward T. Berkanovic of Milwaukee.


HALLOWS, C. J.

The appeal raises basically the question of the sufficiency and the propriety of the proof of heirship. Joseph Shega was born March 17, 1878, in Tinsko, Austria (now Yugoslavia), and came to the United States, was naturalized, married, divorced, and died without children. There was testimony by the administrator, Robert E. Warnimont, who had known the decedent for twenty years, that he had no relatives. On behalf of the respondents, there was offered...

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