In Re Egley's Estate

— This case involves the right of an adopted child to inherit from her first adoptive parents after being adopted a second time.

In 1923, when the appellant was nineteen months of age, she was adopted by J. W. Egley and Maud Egley, husband and wife. When she was four and a half years old, appellant was adopted by Wayne H. and Laverna Carstensen. Mr. Egley died intestate in 1936. Mrs. Egley died in 1941, leaving a will by the terms of which she left appellant the sum of one dollar. Appellant claimed that she was entitled to inherit from her adoptive father and mother, J. W. Egley and Maud Egley.