In Re Estate of Bullock

Can an illegitimate child legally represent its deceased mother, under C. S., 140 and C. S., 137, clauses 4 and 5, and thus share in the distribution of its mother’s father’s estate? "We think not. Such was the holding in Waggoner v. Miller, 26 N. C., 480 (June Term, 1844), and there has been no sufficient change in the statute law since that time to warrant a reversal of this decision.

True, it is provided by C. S., 140, that every illegitimate child of a mother dying intestate shall be considered among her next of kin, and as such "'shall be entitled to share in her personal estate; and,…