Lewis v. Mynatt

Orlena Mynatt, the deceased intestate, wife of the defendant William Mynatt, tras an illegitimate child. She had no issue, and left no mother, no brother, no sister, and no descendant of either brother or sister. After her death the children and heirs at lair of her mother's deceased brothers brought this bill to recover what Avas alleged to be her estate, real and personal, from her surviving husband.

The Special Chancellor and the Court of Chancery Appeals refused the relief sought as to the personalty, upon the ground that it belonged to the husband in his OAvn right, but they aAvarded a…