Fujita

The People of the state, acting through the attorney-general and pursuant to the direction of the grand jury of the county of Sonoma, bring this suit against the defendants to have it decreed that a small tract of agricultural land in said county, suitable for poultry raising, has escheated to the state pursuant to the provisions of the so-called Alien Land Law (Stats. 1920, p. lxxxiii), amended in 1923 (Stats. 1923, p. 1020), and later in 1927 (Stats. 1927, p. 880).

Defendant A. P. Fugita, whose real name is T. Fujita, is a Japanese, a subject of the empire of Japan, and thereby ineligible to citizenship in the United States and forbidden because of this fact to acquire, own, hold or occupy lands in the state of California. The other four defendants are native-born children of said defendant and his wife and are concededly citizens of the United States of America and entitled to all the privileges and immunities accompanying said citizenship. At the tme of the transaction here involved the oldest of said children was about fifteen years of age and the youngest about six years of age.

The facts are practically undisputed. On the fifteenth day of September, 1923, the defendant T.…