Clark v. Allen

Alvina Wagner, a resident of California, died in 1942, leaving real and personal property situate there. By a will dated December 23, 1941, and admitted to probate in a California court in 1942, she bequeathed her entire estate to four relatives who are nationals and residents of Germany. Six heirs-at-law, residents of California, filed a petition for determination of heirship in *506the probate proceedings claiming that the German nationals were ineligible as legatees under California law.1

There has never been a hearing on that petition. For in 1943 the Alien Property Custodian, to whose…