Steckel's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lehigh county: No. 438, to January Term 1870. In the estate of Susanna Steckel, deceased. ' Susanna Steckel died in January 1868. On the settlement of her estate there appeared to be in the hands of her administrator, for distribution amongst her next of kin, the sum of $1077.44. The distribution was referred to an auditor, before whom the claimants were William Steckel, a legitimate son of the decedent, and the widow and three…
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Lehigh county: No. 438, to January Term 1870. In the estate of Susanna Steckel, deceased. ' Susanna Steckel died in January 1868. On the settlement of her estate there appeared to be in the hands of her administrator, for distribution amongst her next of kin, the sum of $1077.44. The distribution was referred to an auditor, before whom the claimants were William Steckel, a legitimate son of the decedent, and the widow and three children of George Getter, an illegitimate son of the decedent, born before her marriage. It appeared before the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
— By the 3d section of the Act of April 27th 1855 (Pamph. L. 368) it is provided “ that illegitimate children shall take and be known by the name of their mother, and they and their mother shall respectively have capacity to take or inherit from each other personal estate as next of kin, and real estate as heirs in fee simple; and as respects said real or personal estate so taken and inherited, to transmit the same according to the intestate laws of this state.”
The question which arose in Grubb’s Appeal, 8 P. F. Smith 55, was whether…
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