Moore v. Moore's Adm'r

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Fulton

Affirming.

The appellant, John W. Moore, is the illegitimate child of Elmer Moore, who died intestate when the appellant was just short of twenty-one years of age, leaving an estate valued ,at approximately $11,000.

• _ This action was filed by him, by his mother and next friend, Lee Belcher, against his father’s administrator, seeking damages in the sum of $15,000 for breach of contract, allegedly made by his father with his mother, shortly after his birth, by which his father, in consideration that his mother would refrain from instituting bastardy…