HULITT v. Jones

This case involves the question of whether appellants’ uncontradicted evidence was sufficient to establish an acknowledgment of paternity under Code of 1942, Section 474, which provides: “Descent among illegitimates. —Tf any man beget a child or children by a Avoman whom he shall afterward marry, such child or children, if acknowledged by the man, shall, in virtue of such marriage and acknowledgment, be legitimate, and capable in law to inherit and transmit inheritance as if born in Avedlock. . . .”

Prior to September 1890 Anna Johnson, an unmarried woman, gave birth to a child named Bertha.…