Legal Opinion
United States v. Burnison
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 13, 1950No. 171PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reed
These appeals involve the power of the California Supreme Court to declare invalid testamentary dispositions to the United States by two California residents. The bequest to the United States in No. 171 included only personal property; in No. 188 the United States was designated to receive both real property and United States bonds. The situs of all the property is assumed to be California. After appropriate procedural steps, the California Supreme Court held void these testamentary gifts and directed that they be distributed to the statutory heirs of each decedent. The two cases were…
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