Kurka v. First Nat'l Bank

WINANS, Justice.

Helen A. Walsh, a spinster, died at Hot Springs, South Dakota, on March 13, 1974, at the age of 82, having lived a frugal, rugged and rather rustic life alone. She had done most of her own farming and cattle raising near Custer until a very; few years before her passing. She left no immediate family andi her closest relatives were nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews of the half-blood, none of them residents of this state. Previous to her death, upon the sale of her real estate by the appointed guardian, she had assets of roughly a quarter of a million dollars, at…