Legal Opinion
Carscadden v. Territory of Alaska
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 28, 1939No. 8894PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANEY, Circuit Judge.
Appeal is taken from a judgment dismissing with prejudice appellant’s claim to property escheated to the Territory of Alaska, after demurrer had beén sustained to the petition and appellant’s refusal to plead further.
One Sarah Carscadden, in 1903, was committed to an asylum for the insane. Her son, who is the appellant, left the Territory of Alaska in 1911, and has been absent therefrom since that time.
By § 1, Ch. 40, Alaska Session Laws 1921, it was declared that: “When any person shall die intestate, without heirs, leaving real or personal property in the Territory, the…
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