Estate of Bell v. State

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON:

This is an appeal from an order of escheat made by the district court of the third judicial district of the State of Montana, in and for the County of Granite.

Nick Bell died testate on September 2, 1939, in Granite County, Montana, leaving an estate in excess .of $11,000. In the will he provided for legacies to certain persons apparently living in Yugoslavia. Then in the “Seventh” and “Ninth” paragraphs he provided,

“Seventh: All of the rest, residue and remainder of my *347estate, real, personal and mixed, wheresoever situated, of which I may die seized or possessed, or…