District of Columbia v. David R. Wolverton, Administrator of the Estate of Albert J. Smith, Deceased

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This case involves competing claims of the United States and the District of Columbia to escheat of the moneys owned by an inmate of the United States Soldiers’ Home who died in 1959, intestate and without legal heirs or next of kin. The Soldiers’ Home is located in the District of Columbia, and all parties agree that the inmate here involved — Albert J. Smith — was a resident of the District at his death. He had served for thirty-one years in the Regular Army, was retired in 1928, and entered the Home in 1956. The District Court, sitting as a Probate Court, awarded…