Rogers v. Green

Isabel Warr, a resident of the City and County of Denver, died intestate March 21, 1941. Defendants in .error are cousins of deceased, and will be designated as such in this opinion. Plaintiff in error, to whom we hereinafter refer as the adoptee, was legally adopted in Illinois in 1916 by Will Warr, a predeceased brother of decedent, who, had he survived her, would have been her sole and only heir at law. On petition filed in the county court for determination of heirship, the cousins were adjudged heirs at law of decedent, and the adoptee, being denied the right to inherit, brings the case…