Anderson v. Patterson

In January, 1947, Ouner Anderson Patterson filed her bill of complaint in the court below against Rosetta Anderson, individually and as administratrix of the estate of Philip Anderson, deceased, alleging that the plaintiff was the daughter of Philip Anderson as the result of a common-law marriage in the District of Columbia between Philip Anderson and Ida Gray; that the plaintiff was born on March 18, 1902, in the District of Columbia; that subsequently, on October 6, 1902, Philip Anderson had gone “through a marriage ceremony with one Rosetta Richardson, now known as Rosetta Anderson, the…