Scales v. Scales

DROWOTA, Judge.

OPINION

This suit to remove a cloud from the title to real property raises questions concerning the interest taken by an illegitimate child, legitimated by judicial proceedings, under a devise by his grandfather to his father for life, remainder to his father’s “children.”

Plaintiff Robert Lee Scales was born out of wedlock to William James Scales on September 9, 1922. He was the only child of William Scales, who filed a petition resulting in an order declaring plaintiff “the legitimate child of the Petitioner” on November 30, 1962. The version of T.C.A. § 36-306 under which…