Franklin v. White

GOODWYN, Justice.

The single question for decision is whether an adoptive parent inherits from his adopted child.

The appellant, John Franklin, adopted Ruby Louise White on July 3, 1924, by a written declaration of adoption acknowledged by him before the Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Alabama, and recorded in said probate office, all in accordance with the then existing law. § 5202, Code 1907, as amended by Act No. 132, approved March 11, 1911, Gen.Acts 1911, p. 114. The same law was carried into the 1923 Code as § 9302, which went into effect on August 17, 1924, pursuant to Proclamation…