Hill v. Newman

Clarke, Justice.

This is a descent and distribution case. The issues involve the rights of an illegitimate child to the estate of the father and to the estate of a cousin on the father’s side of the family. A side issue before the court is the implication by the trial court that a husband of an intestate’s aunt may inherit from the niece.

The facts creating the issues are these. Emily Virginia West died intestate in 1972 leaving her aunt Lydia Littlejohn and her uncle Charlie Newman as her only heirs at law. Lydia died in 1974, and after Charlie died in 1982, his widow, the appellee, petitioned…