Estate of Clausen

Claus Albert Clausen died testate April 3, 1925, a resident of the county of Marin, this state. He was unmarried and left neither children, nor father, nor mother surviving him. He left as his sole heirs at law seven brothers, three sisters, and four children of a deceased sister and five children of a deceased brother. By his will he bequeathed and devised to his brothers and sisters and to the children or issue of any deceased brother or sister (such children or issue to take by right of representation) all property of which he might die seised or possessed. The heirs whose distributive shares are the concern of this proceeding are the children of said deceased brother and sister and are residents of the Kingdom of Denmark. The executor of said estate, having brought the proceeding to the stage where it was proper to make partial distribution of the same, petitioned the court to make a decree to that effect, which was accordingly made and entered by the court, whereupon Pin Lund, as the accredited consul of Denmark, whose consular district embraced the whole state of Cali fornia, filed a petition wherein he prayed that the executor of said estate be ordered to pay the…