Harvey v. Ball

Horatio N. Harvey, a citizen of this State, died intestate in 1850, without issue, and seized in fee of certain lands in Tippecanoe county. The appellants are heirs at law of Horatio, one of them being his legitimate brother, and the others the children of a legitimate sister! Before the marriage of his parents his mother gave birth, in Pennsylvania, to a bastard child, named Powell Harvey, who has always resided in that State. Hpon her marriage, the husband took the child into his family and acknowledged him as his own. The parents always, until their death, in 1830, resided in Pennsylvania.…