Estate of Roberts

This is an appeal taken by the State of California from a final decree of distribution which distributed all of the residue of the estate of William Roberts, deceased, to a sister and. two nieces of decedent’s predeceased wife. There is no dispute about the facts. William Roberts died intestate, in January, 1945, leaving neither spouse nor issue. His estate consisted of property which had been the community property of his previously deceased wife and himself, and had come to decedent by virtue of such character, on the death of his wife, Hattie E. Roberts. The latter left surviving her…