Coffman v. Bartsch

The only question involved in this appeal has already been fully determined by this court, in the cases of Smith v. Smith, 23 Ind. 202, and McMackin v. Michaels, id., 462. It was there held that “those ohly who were of the blood of the ancestor last seized could inherit.” In the case under consideration, the Coffman children are of the blood of the ancestor last seized, and are entitled to inherit equally with the children by her second husband. The appellants attempt to apply sec. 6 of the law of descents, 1 G. & H. 292, as controlling, but that section governs the inheritance only as…