Spaulding v. Melch

NORVELL, Justice.

The facts in this case are undisputed and are for the most part recited in the trial court’s judgment. The court below held that the minors, Frederick Benjamin Spaulding and Martha Crawford Spauld-ing (who appear herein by Herbert R. Melch as next friend), the adopted children of Roger W. Spaulding and Ruth Wheeler Spaulding, were each entitled to a natural child’s part of the estate of Roger W. Spaulding, deceased, “just as if said testator had left no will and just as if said adopted children had been natural born children of said testator born to him after the date of the…