State Ex Rel. Swift v. Tullar

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a superior court decree determining heirship, directing that one-half of the estate of the deceased be distributed to the descendants of the deceased’s maternal great-grandparents and denying an escheat of this part of the estate to the State of Arizona.

The petition requested that the superior court determine heirship in that the decedent died intestate and was hot survived by a spouse, children, issue, mother, father, brothers, sisters, grandparents, great-grandparents or by descendants of brothers and sisters. Surviving the decedent were three…