Hockaday v. Lynn
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. — How. H. C. Timmonds, Special Judge. (1) Plaintiff was the legally adopted child of James Lynn, deceased, and as snch was entitled to inherit as if born to him in lawful wedlock — or just as a child by blood. Lynn v. Hockaday, 162 Mo.
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Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. — How. H. C. Timmonds, Special Judge. (1) Plaintiff was the legally adopted child of James Lynn, deceased, and as snch was entitled to inherit as if born to him in lawful wedlock — or just as a child by blood. Lynn v. Hockaday, 162 Mo. Ill; secs. 968, 970, R. S. 1889; see. 5248, R. S. 1899; Posburgh v. Rogers, 114 Mo. 133; Moran v. Stewart, 122 Mo. 295, 132 Mo. 73; In Re Estaie Moran, 151 Mo. 557 ;• Warren v. Prescott, 24 Atl. 948, 84 Me. 483; Ross v. Ross, 129 Mass. 243; Gray v. Holmes, 57 Kan. 217; Power v. Hafley, 85 Ky. 671; Stearns v. Allen, 183 Mass. 404;…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
Cast on demurrer lodged below, plaintiff stood on ber petition, submitted to judgment and appealed.
The case is this:
In 1900 William E. Lynn, a bachelor, died intestate, seized of an undivided half interest in a farm of 295 acres in Cass county, leaving surviving him a brother, Cicero, and nephews and nieces (the children of a deceased brother and the children of a deceased sister) and their descendants. The deceased brother (James Lynn) diedin 1896, leaving one son and also an heir by adoption, the plaintiff, now intermarried with one Hockaday.
Plaintiff’s theory being that she was an heir of…
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