In Re Estate of Millward

Robert E. Annable, the administrator of the estate of Lawrence M. Millward, commenced this action in the Probate Court of Cuyahoga County, to determine the heirs of his decedent, who died intestate on March 28, 1955, a resident of Ohio, and whose estate was being administered in the court.

The administrator named certain collateral relatives as heirs. Lawrence Hattwick, a litigant and the appellant herein, claims to be the sole heir at law, by virtue of the fact that he is the natural and legitimate son of the decedent, notwithstand ing the fact that he was legally adopted by one Robert C.…