Black v. Washam

In this appeal from the chancery court the principal question to be determined is: Does the property of an adopted child, dying intestate without a surviving wife, child or blood kin, escheat to the State or pass to the collateral heirs of the adoptive parents? From the Chancellor’s ruling and decreeing the property io the collateral heirs of the adoptive parents, the State has prayed this appeal.

The facts are uncontroverted. James Dudley Cassady was adopted by James E. Cassady and wife Laura on March 29, 1906. He was the only child of the marriage. Both of his adoptive parents predeceased…