Magevney v. Karsch

This ease presents a contest over the estate of the late Mrs. Kate E. Hamilton, who died intestate in Memphis in December, 1930. The defendant Mrs. Karsch claims the entire estate as a daughter of the deceased by adoption. The complainants are the next of kin of Mrs. Hamilton, in which right they claim, and the primary basis of their bill is that the adoption proceedings were invalid and conferred no rights on Mrs. Karsch. The complainants also claim the real estate as heirs of the late Eugene Magevney; their contention in this respect being founded on the proposition that, under the will of…