Norman v. Heist
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, in an ejectment brought by Joseph Norman and David Norman against Charles Heist, in which the court rendered judgment for the defendant on the following special verdict: Ann Norman, afterwards Ann Ottinger, was seised in fee of the land claimed in this ejectment, and had an illegitimate son who was born about the year 1790. That in the year 1818 the said Ann Norman was duly joined in lawful wedlock to Christopher…
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ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, in an ejectment brought by Joseph Norman and David Norman against Charles Heist, in which the court rendered judgment for the defendant on the following special verdict: Ann Norman, afterwards Ann Ottinger, was seised in fee of the land claimed in this ejectment, and had an illegitimate son who was born about the year 1790. That in the year 1818 the said Ann Norman was duly joined in lawful wedlock to Christopher Ottinger, the father of the said illegitimate child, who was called and known by the name of Christopher Norman. That on the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
— A bastard cannot inherit, by the common law, because he is the son of nobody, and has the blood of no ancestor in him; neither can he transmit his property by descent, except to his own issue. Then what is this statute? “ The children and heirs of Christopher Norman, a natural son of Ann Ottinger deceased,” say the Legislature, “ shall be able and capable, in law, to inherit and transmit the estate of the said Ann Ottinger, and any other, as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as if the said Christopher Norman had been…
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