Estate of Strawn

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court of the county of Los Angeles made and entered under the provisions of section 1822 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which relate to the appointment of a trustee for the estate of a missing person in order that the property of such person may be given proper care and attention. The appellant disappeared while living in the county of Los Angeles some time in the year 1923, his whereabouts being unknown. He therefore came within the proper description of a missing person; whereupon one Lou A. Strawn, alleging herself to be his wife, applied to said court under the provisions of the foregoing section of the code for the appointment of herself as trustee of the estate of George W. Strawn, an alleged missing person. After such notice as the provisions of the code directed and the court ordered, a hearing was had, whereupon said Lou A. Strawn was appointed trustee of the estate of said missing person. Three years later George W. Strawn re-appeared and presented in said court and matter an affidavit setting forth that said Lou A. Strawn, as such trustee, had upon her appointment taken over certain personal property of the affiant of the…