GUARDIANSHIP OF ESTATE OF KAWAKITA

Docket No. L.A. 22281.

42 Cal.2d 840 (1954)

271 P.2d 13

Guardianship of the Persons and Estates of HIROKO KAWAKITA et al., Minors. HIROKO KAWAKITA et al., Appellants, v. W.H. LORENZ, as Guardian, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 28, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Lavine for Appellants.

Horton & Knox, Harry W. Horton and R.L. Knox, Jr., for Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

Hiroko Kawakita and her brother, Tomoya, are native-born children of Yasabura Kawakita, an alien Japanese, who was appointed guardian of his children and of their estates in 1923. In 1927, Yasabura furnished the funds to purchase a lot in Calexico on which there was a two-story brick business building. The purchase price of the property was $33,000, and $7,000 in improvements were added during the next ten years...

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