Cottin v. Cottin

J. delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff's son died, leaving his wife, the defendant, in a state of pregnancy.- Some weeks after, she was delivered of a child, who lived a few hours and died. The question is did this child inherit?

? Now withstanding the shocking contradictions which fill the depositions, given at different times by the same witnesses, it may be considered as proved, that the child was born after the period, posterior to which children are deemed capable of living, that he was born alive, without any apparent defect of conformation, and that he lived seven or eight…