Hondlenk v. John

ST. PAUL, Justice.

The defendants appeal from a judgment excluding them from all participation in their mother’s estate on the ground that they are adulterous bastards. The mother, Mrs. Lucretia Spohn, died possessed of certain real estate which, it is admitted, came to her by inheritance from her father; also of certain movable property, the proceeds of which seemed to have been used, in great part, for the payment of her debts.

The mother was married twice: First, 1885, to John Hondlenk by whom she had three children who are the plaintiffs; and, second, in 1898, to Eugene Robins by whom she…