In Re Drumheller's Estate

The decisive question in this ease is one of judicial notice. The trial court took judicial notice of Indiana statute and common law. The court held as a finding of fact ■and conclusion of law under Indiana statute law in effect at the time and decisions of the highest appellate court of Indiana construing the statutory law, appellant could not inherit from a collateral relative of her adoptive parent, and based on The Estate of Sunderland, 60 Iowa 732, 13 N.W. 655, as her right ■to inherit was limited at the place of adoption, it is so- limited here and she was not entitled to inherit from…