Moralee v. Cadwell
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Carbon County; Hon. V. J. Tidball, Judge. In the matter of the estate of Willard Cadwell, deceased, wherein C. L. Moralee, and M. M. Moralee, also William P. Cadwell, filed petitions for distribution of the estate. There was a judgment in favor of Cadwell, and the Moralees bring error. The controversy hinges upon the meaning to be given the term “descendants” found in Sec. 5727, Div. 2, Comp.
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ERROR to the District Court, Carbon County; Hon. V. J. Tidball, Judge. In the matter of the estate of Willard Cadwell, deceased, wherein C. L. Moralee, and M. M. Moralee, also William P. Cadwell, filed petitions for distribution of the estate. There was a judgment in favor of Cadwell, and the Moralees bring error. The controversy hinges upon the meaning to be given the term “descendants” found in Sec. 5727, Div. 2, Comp. Stat. A descendant is one proceeding from an ancestor, an offspring near or remote (Centvic Progeny, Worcester Diet.). The force of the adoption statute ('Sec. 3964) must be…
1Opinion of the Court
Mrntzrr, District Judgr.
Willard Cadwell died intestate in Carbon county, Wyoming, on September 1, 1911. Pie was a resident of said county at the time of his death and left an estate therein consisting of real and personal property. He left no children *415or widow surviving him, and his father, mother, and all of his brothers and sisters died prior to the time of his death. His sister, Emma Cadwell, had intermarried with one Mora-lee, and left surviving her as her only heirs-at-law, and also surviving the said Willard Cadwell, two sons, to-wit: C. E. Moralee and M. M. Moralee, the petitioners in…
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