Court Opinion

ID: 9548767
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:08:33.933287+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:24.716579
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ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
*592On appellant’s petition for rehearing.
Peter A. Schwabe (Sr.), Portland, for the petition.
Before McAllister, Chief Justice, and Perry, Sloan, Goodwin, Denecke, Holman and Lusk, Justices.
HOLMAN, J.
Plaintiffs, in a petition for rehearing, again direct our attention to Mullart v. State Land Board, 222 Or 463, 353 P2d 531 (1960). That case held that Estonian nationals had a right to inherit personal as well as real property from estates in the United States of American nationals. The provisions of Article IV of the 1925 treaty with Estonia, 44 Stat 2379, T.S. No. 736, are identical with those of Article IV of the 1923 treaty with Germany construed in the principal opinion in this case. Plaintiffs argue, therefore, that the Mullart case requires this court to permit them to inherit the personal as well as the real property of the deceased despite the contrary holding in Clark v. Allen, 331 US 503, 67 S Ct 1431, 91 L Ed 1633 (1947).
Article IV of the Estonian treaty was not relied on in Mullart. The court there held that the Estonian legatee had the right to inherit because the reciprocal provision of the Oregon statute, which required that United States nationals be permitted to inherit from estates in the country of the alien heir, devisee or legatee, was satisfied by Estonian law. It was therefore unnecessary to consider or rely on the *593effect of Article IV of the treaty. By contrast, plaintiffs’ right to inherit in this case depended upon the language of Article IV of the 1923 German treaty. Therefore, there is no conflict between this court’s holding in Mullart and the principal opinion in this case.
The petition for rehearing is denied.