Coakley v. Attorney General

The judge in the Probate Court reserved and reported without decision (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 215, § 13) this petition for instructions as to whether on the *509agreed facts the net estate of John Konon should be distributed to the Commonwealth or the United States of America.

John Konon, an honorably discharged veteran of the first World War, was domiciled in Massachusetts. As an insane person he was an inmate of several hospitals from August 20, 1927, until he died intestate on September 11, 1940, while a patient at the Federal Veterans’ Administration hospital in Bedford. A guardian had been…