Steele v. Crawford

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

Carrie Steele and Effie 'Collins, are the bastard children of Breck Crawford who died in the year 1918, leaving a will by which he devised all of his property to his brother, A. C. Crawford, who qualified as his executor. Three years later the two children sued their father’s executor to recover the sum of $10,000.00 each. A demurrer was sustained to the petition as amended, and the petition was dismissed. Plaintiffs appeal.

The grounds for which a recovery is sought may be summarized as follows:(1) In the year 1887 Breck Crawford seduced Mollie…