Legal Opinion

Estate of Harrison

Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco

Decided December 11, 1876No. 5343Published

1Opinion of the Court

Blake:

The half-sisters take the entire estate, to the exclusion of the half brother. Williams on Descent, 416 to 419; 8 Leigh, (Va.) 307; 2 Root, (Conn.) 281; 1 Dev. (N. C. Eq.) 349; Civil Code, 1386-7-8. Pol. Code, 4484; 18 Cal., 96; 53 Maine, 495.

Roysdon:

Being alien illegitimate, they cannot inherit. Bing, on Descent, chap, inheritance, alien, illegitimacy; 4 Kent, 414 to 417; Potier on Suc., Art. 3, Sec. 3.

*122By the Court:

The male applicant is a half brother of deceased by the same father; the female applicants are half-sisters by the same mother; all are illegitimate, and all are natives and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. In re Estate of De Castro v. BarryCalifornia Supreme Court · 1861

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