Anderson v. French
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from a decree of the probate court for Rockingham county, in the matter of the distribution of the estate of Mary C. Fitts. Transferred without ruling from the April term, 1914, of the superior court by Pike, C. J., on an agreed statement of facts. Mary C. Fitts was a resident of Newfields and died there on February 8, 1912, intestate, leaving personal property. She had in her lifetime two brothers, S. Franklin and George H. French.
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Appeal, from a decree of the probate court for Rockingham county, in the matter of the distribution of the estate of Mary C. Fitts. Transferred without ruling from the April term, 1914, of the superior court by Pike, C. J., on an agreed statement of facts. Mary C. Fitts was a resident of Newfields and died there on February 8, 1912, intestate, leaving personal property. She had in her lifetime two brothers, S. Franklin and George H. French. S. Franklin died at Newfields on November 14, 1911, leaving as his sole heir-at-law Evalena W. F. Anderson, an adopted daughter, who is the appellant.…
1Opinion of the CourtI Plummer, J.
The appellant having been legally adopted in Massachusetts, under adoption laws similar to those in this state, that adoption should be recognized here. Ross v. Ross, 129 Mass. 243; Van Matre v. Sankey, 148 Ill. 536; Calhoun v. Bryant, 28 S. D. 266. “There is ... no doubt as to the general principle that the status acquired by adoption in a state or country having jurisdiction will be recognized both for the purpose of the descent of real, and the distribution of personal, property in other states or countries, at least in those whose laws provide for adoption.” 1 Whart. Conf. Laws (3d ed.)…
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