State Land Board v. Portland Trust & Savings Bank

The state land board has appealed from an order of the circuit court for Multnomah county, department of probate, overruling the objections filed by the state land board to the final account of the administrator of the estate of Fritz Braun, deceased. In that order the court decreed that the decedent left surviving him as heirs at law two brothers and two sisters, all residents of Germany, and denied the land board’s petition requesting that the administrator of the estate be ordered to transmit to the state treasurer the clear proceeds of the estate, on the ground that the decedent died…