In Re Estate of Fitzgerald

As the preliminary statement indicates, this is a controversy over the estate of an adopted son. The estate is claimed by the collateral heirs of the adopting parents and also by the natural mother of the adopted son. The facts involved are gathered.wholly from the pleadings as the case was disposed of below on the pleadings and rulings on demurrers. The conceded facts briefly are as follows:

The natural mother, now known as Norah Shaw, intervener, was married to one Tripp in Polk County, Iowa, in July, 1908, and to them was born a son in 1911. The marriage of the natural parents was dissolved…