Iracema Philippina Simons v. United States of America, and the Estate of John Simons, Deceased

FRIENDLY, Chief Judge:

This appeal raises interesting and important questions concerning the right of a former wife to attack the naturalization decrees of her deceased husband and herself entered over a score of years before the instant proceedings were begun.

The allegations of Iracema Philippina Simons, the plaintiff and movant, which for present purposes we must assume to be true, were as follows: She was born in 1922 in Brazil, a citizen of Holland by virtue of her parentage. In 1946 she married, in Holland, John Simons, also a Dutch citizen. Mr. Simons had come to the United States during…