Estate of Woolsey

THOMPSON (R. L.), J.

This is an appeal on the part of the State of California from a decree of the probate court distributing to Delia Woolsey Perry, as sole surviving heir, the entire estate of the deceased. The State of California intervened in the proceeding for distribution under the provisions of section 1269a of the Code of Civil Procedure, claiming that the deceased died without known heirs and that the estate therefore escheated to the State. It is contended the evidence fails to support the decree.

Charles W. Woolsey, aged sixty-two years, died intestate without issue in the county of…