59-508. No spouse, child, issue, or parents.
59-508
59-508. No spouse, child, issue, or parents.If the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, child, issue, or parents,the respective shares of his or her property which would have passed to theparents, had both of them been living, shall pass to the heirs of suchparents respectively (excluding their respective spouses), the same as itwould have passed had such parents owned it in equal shares and diedintestate at the time of his or her death; but if either of said parents left nosuch heirs, then and in that event his or her property shall pass to the livingheirs of the other parent.
History: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 30; L. 1949, ch. 310, § 1; April 15.