Kleiber v. Ecker
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for. Manito-woc county: Michael Kirwan, Circuit Judge. Joseph Ecker died intestate April 30, .1918, his wife having died some years before. He left surviving his sister, the appellant, and several children of a deceased brother. There were no children as a result of his marriage.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for. Manito-woc county: Michael Kirwan, Circuit Judge. Joseph Ecker died intestate April 30, .1918, his wife having died some years before. He left surviving his sister, the appellant, and several children of a deceased brother. There were no children as a result of his marriage. It appears that in 1866 one Mary Halda made a complaint before a justice of the peace in which she charged that the deceased, Joseph Ecker, was the father of her unborn child. A warrant was issued. Subsequently Mary Halda gave birth to a male child and named him Adolph…
1Opinion of the CourtRosenberry, J.
While the finding of the court that Adolph Ecker is the son of Joseph Ecker is assigned as error by the appellant, that fact is so conclusively established that it may be treated as a verity in this case. In ever}'- possible way over a long period of time, with the single exception of formally adopting him or acknowledging him as his son by some formal document, Joseph Ecker treated Adolph as his son. Adolph was born January 2, 1866, so that the witnesses to the transactions which occurred at the time Adolph became a member of the family of Joseph have passed away with the exception of Mary…
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