In re the Estate of Heyn

As petitioner in this proceeding the appellant, Elvira Henderson, is seeking to establish her right to a distributive share, as in intestacy, of the estate of Inger Heyn who died leaving a will giving her entire estate to her son, Chester Ingvoldstad, who is the respondent here. Mrs. Heyn had a second son, Cornelius Pentheny, who predeceased her. Appellant sues as the illegitimate daughter of Pentheny. It is her position that under the Virgin Islands pretermission statute, as in force at the times in question,1 she is a “descendant of a child” of Mrs. Heyn who has not been provided for in her…