Alexander's Adm'r v. Alexander
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Autauga. IN the matter of the estate of Mary Ann Alexander, deceased, who died in Mississippi, leaving personal property in the county of Autauga, Alabama, on which administration was granted by the probate court of Autauga.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Autauga. IN the matter of the estate of Mary Ann Alexander, deceased, who died in Mississippi, leaving personal property in the county of Autauga, Alabama, on which administration was granted by the probate court of Autauga. On the settlement of the administrator’s accounts, it was ■ ascertained that there was a balance in his hands for distribution, amounting to over $2,000. It further appeared, that the decedent left two children surviving her, William PI. Alexander and Henry C. Alexander, the latter being an illegitimate child. Two statutes of Mississippi,…
1Opinion of the Court
"WALKER, J.
— The only point made in this case is, that the court erred in construing the Mississippi statute which governed the distribution of the fund in the administrator’s hands, as authorizing the illegimate child of a deceased mother to share her estate equally with a legitimate child. The section of the Mississippi statute which pertains to the question is in the following words: “ Hereafter, all illegitimate children shall inherit the property of their mothers, and from each other as the children of the half blood, according to the statute of descents and distributions now in force in…
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