In Re Estate of Heaton

This appeal arises out of a contest for letters of administration. Letters were awarded to respondent, Jennie M. Heaton, upon the ground that she was the daughter of deceased, the court holding that she was the illegitimate daughter of deceased, Warren D. Heaton, legitimated under the provisions of section 230 of the Civil Code. That section reads: “The father of an illegitimate-child, by publicly acknowledging it as his own, receiving it as such, with the consent of his wife, if h§ is married, into his family, and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child, thereby adopts it as…