Sanford v. Marsh
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree made by Forbes, J., in the Probate Court for the county of Worcester upon the petition of the administrator of the estate of Abby W. Taft, late of Uxbridge, for a partial distribution of that estate.
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Appeal from a decree made by Forbes, J., in the Probate Court for the county of Worcester upon the petition of the administrator of the estate of Abby W. Taft, late of Uxbridge, for a partial distribution of that estate. Petition filed September 6,1901. The case came on to be heard upon the papers and agreed facts before Barker, J., who at the request of the parties reserved it for the determination of the full court, such disposition to be made thereof as law and justice might require. By the agreed facts it appeared, that Abby W. Taft, a widow without issue, died intestate June 12, 1901.…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The Pub. Sts. c. 125, § 4, as amended by the St. 1882,c. 132, reads as follows: “If an illegitimate child dies intestate and without issue who may lawfully inherit his estate, such estate shall descend to his mother, or in case she is not living, to the persons who would have been entitled thereto by inheritance through his mother if he had been a legitimate child.” The case before us is not within the language of the statute, for we are not dealing with the estate of an illegitimate child, but with the estate of the daughter of an illegitimate child who had deceased before the daughter. The…
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