Scott v. Key
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the District Court, Tenth District, parish of Carroll, Snyder, J. The counsel for plaintiffs made the following points: Did William Estill have any heritable right in the estate of Samuel Es-till ? In order to arrive at a proper solution of this question, it beeomes necessary to consider the force and effect of the statute of legitimation passed by the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, by which, to use the language of that Act, William Estill “was…
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APPEAL from the District Court, Tenth District, parish of Carroll, Snyder, J. The counsel for plaintiffs made the following points: Did William Estill have any heritable right in the estate of Samuel Es-till ? In order to arrive at a proper solution of this question, it beeomes necessary to consider the force and effect of the statute of legitimation passed by the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, by which, to use the language of that Act, William Estill “was made the legal heir and representative of Samuel Estill in as full and ample a manner as though he had been such from his…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This cause has already been before this court, and was remanded to make proper parties defendant. See 9 An. 213.
Plaintiffs are the surviving brother and sisters of Samuel Estill, deceased, and the children of a deceased brother of said Samuel. They claim to be heirs at law of Samuel Estill. The defendants are the curator, and the half-brothers and sisters, heirs of one William Estill, who was a natural son of Samuel Estill, but legitimated by a statute of the State (then territory) of Arkansas, of which Samuel and William Estill wore at the time residents, passed October Zith, 1835, and…
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