In Re Sielcken

This proceeding was instituted by the petition of one Clara Sielcken, as the widow of one August Hermann Sielcken, directed to the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, praying for an order restoring the records of the district court of the fourth judicial district of the state of California in the matter of the naturalization of said August Hermann Sielcken, alleged in her amended petition to have occurred in said court. The jurisdiction of said superior court to entertain said petition arises out of the fact that it became the successor of the jurisdiction and custodian of the records of said former district court under the provisions of the constitution creating said superior court and of the statutes expressly providing for such succession. (Stats. 1880, p. 23.) The proceeding itself was instituted under and in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of an act of the legislature approved June 16, 1906, entitled, “An Act relating to the restoration of court records which have been lost, injured or destroyed by conflagration or other public calamity.” (Stats. 1906, p. 73.) The petitioner’s application was filed in said superior court on October 20, 1920,…