State ex rel. Atkinson v. World Real Estate Commercial Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Yakey, J., entered June 14, 1906, upon .sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, dismissing proceedings to declare an escheat of real property held by an alien.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, J.
This action, a proceeding in the nature of office found, was instituted by the state of Washington on relation of John D. Atkinson, its attorney general, to escheat certain real estate in King county. The essential facts, as alleged in the complaint, are that on March 24, 1900, the defendant Arthur Hamilton, being the owner of the real estate in question, by deed conveyed the same to the defendant Y. Ota, an alien of the Mongolian race, born of Japanese parents in the empire of Japan;-and that Y. Ota retained the record title until May 17, 1905, when he and his wife Kane Ota, also an alien,…
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