Record v. Ellis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The defendant, the administrator of the estate of William Ellis, deceased, appeals from a decision adjudging the plaintiff competent to inherit from the decedent. The questions of paternity and of general and notorious recognition are involved. (Gen. Stat. 1909, § 2956.)

The plaintiff, Notley E. Record, son of Mary Record, was bom in Pendleton county, Kentucky, January 12, 1873. William Ellis, born and raised in the same neighborhood, was a single man about thirty years of age at this time and engaged to marry Miss Lydia B. Pribble who lived in…