Earle v. Dawes

The Chancellor :

This case, which is submitted upon arguments, in writing, of the solicitors of the parties, presents two questions.

The first depends upon the construction of the Act of 1825, ch. 156, relating to illegitimate children. It appears that the defendant, B. M. Dawes, son of Mrs. Dawes, is an illegitimate child, and that his mother, Elizabeth Dawes, died intestate, leaving this son and other children horn in lawful wedlock, and the question now raised is, whether this illegitimate son is entitled to participate in the estate of his mother as co-heir with the other children.

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