Van Horn v. Van Horn
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Howard District Gourt. — Hon. A. N. Hobson, Judge. This proceeding is to establish plaintiff’s right as an illegitimate son to inherit the property, real and personal, of one Peter Van Horn, who died intestate in Howard county, Iowa; in August of the year 1895. The deceased was never married, and the defendants are his brothers and sisters.
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Appeal from Howard District Gourt. — Hon. A. N. Hobson, Judge. This proceeding is to establish plaintiff’s right as an illegitimate son to inherit the property, real and personal, of one Peter Van Horn, who died intestate in Howard county, Iowa; in August of the year 1895. The deceased was never married, and the defendants are his brothers and sisters. In answer to plaintiff’s claim defendants made a general denial, and further pleaded that at the time of plaintiff’s birth, and for many years thereafter, both he and his putative father were residents of the state of-New Jersey, and that by…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Appellee was born in the state of New Jersey in January of the year 1854. His mother was Sarah Ann 'Scales. She died in the year 1859, at the age of 31. About the year 1857 Peter Van Horn, deceased, moved to Howard county, where he resided most of the time until his death. As we have said, he was unmarried, and the defendants are his brothers and sisters, who claim his property by right of inheritance. Appellee claims that Peter Van Horn was his father, and that the deceased recognized him as his son while both lived in the state of New Jersey, both orally and in writing, and that he is…
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