Gorny v. Trustees of Milwaukee County Orphans Board

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree obtained in an equity action instituted by appellees September 13, 1935, to recover from appellant the sum of $20,909.99, being the escheated estate of Mary Bulewicz, deceased, and paid to appellant in conformity with a decree of the county court of *108Milwaukee county, entered in probate, February 26, 1926. The decree was entered pursuant to section 2, chapter 471, Priv. & Loc.Laws 1871 of Wisconsin, as follows: “If, after the expiration of one year from the granting of letters of administration to the public administrator on any estate, no…