Turnmire v. Mayes

Ma. Chief Justice Beard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The complainant, the legitimate son of an illegitimate mother who died in 1854, a resident of this State, files the present bill, in which he asserts his right to be let in to a share of the estates, real and personal, of a sister and brother of the same mother, both of whom were legitimate, and who died, respectively, in 1901 and 1903, intestate, leaving neither mother nor father nor issue surviving. The facts as to the claim thus presented are: That Elizabeth McCoy, before her marriage to Ewel Jordan, gave birth to an illegitimate…