Estate of Card

William Perry Card died intestate in Oklahoma. At the time of his decease he was a resident of that state. When he was in his last illness, as it afterward transpired, he wired his daughter, Addie V. Stewart, who resided in Los Angeles County, California, that he was ill and she immediately proceeded to Oklahoma by train. Mrs. Stewart had no reason to suppose that her father’s death was imminent and prepared to remain in Oklahoma long enough to nurse him back to health. Unfortunately, however, he passed away before she reached his bedside. Card had been married twice and Mrs. Stewart was a child of his first matrimonial union. His second marriage had been dissolved by divorce. At the time of his decease he had residing with him two minor sons, the fruits of this latter union. Up to within a few days before his death Card was the owner of 180 acres of land in Oklahoma, but at that time he transferred the property to his sons in consideration of love and affection. At his decease he left in Oklahoma certain cash, cattle, and other personal property. The cash was in bank and was by Mrs. Stewart, immediately upon her arrival in the state, withdrawn by means of signed checks which Card…