Commonwealth v. Von Zedtwitz

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

This proceeding by the Commonwealth, on relation of the Attorney General, was instituted in the Jefferson circuit court against appellee, Yon Zedtwitz, and the trastees of an estate passed by the will of his mother, to escheat a large tract of land in the suburbs of Louisville, Jefferson county, on the ground of alienage, pursuant to> the provision of section 338, Kentucky Statutes, reading:

i£If real estate within this Commonwealth shall pass to a nonresident alien by descent or devise, the same may, for the period of eight years next after the…