Vonica v. Unknown Foreign & Non-Resident Heirs of Eli Stoian

*387This is an appeal by the State of Montana from an order determining heirship entered in the district court of the third judicial district, Powell County, on April 28, 1958, in which it was decreed that Dan D. Vonica was the only surviving heir at law of the deceased, Eli Stoian, and therefore entitled to distribution of the entire estate.

Eli Stoian died intestate on or about the 1st day of January 1949, leaving an estate in excess of $10,000. Dan D. Vonica petitioned for letters of administration alleging himself to be the next of kin and heir at law of the deceased. He was duly appointed…