In re the Estate of Smith

Wingate, S.

In its material aspects the present proceeding possesses negligible interest, but its bearing upon human rights raises questions of transcendent importance. The issue, in brief, is whether, under the applicable rules of law, the court is compelled to stigmatize the three infant children of this decedent with the *865bar sinister and brand them throughout all time with the opprobrium of being bastards.

Though merely human, it is extemely regrettable that due, no doubt, to the inevitable smallness of the reward which counsel can expect from the estate, the material consideration has been…