In re Crowell's Estate

Two children, born out of wedlock in Nova Scotia, were adopted into the family of their father, while he still resided in that land. Whether such adoption conferred the privilege, under R. S. of Maine, Chap. 80, Sec. 3, to share by inheritance in the estate of a child by marriage of the same father, dying intestate domiciled and leaving personalty in this State, is in a rough and general way the question pivotal here.

It is among the provisions of the statute, that if the father of an illegitimate child “adopts him into his family,” the child thereby becomes the heir of his father, so it or…