Nossaman v. Nossaman

This was a bill in chancery for partition by Wellington Nossaman and others against Adam Nossaman.

A portion of the complainants claim that they are entitled to the partition, as the only legitimate children and heirs of John Nossatnan, deceased, who died intestate, to *649the exclusion of the defendant, Adam Nossaman, whom they charge to have been illegitimate. But if they shall be found not to be the legitimate children of the intestate, it is alleged that Sidney Belcher, another of the complainants, who is a sister of the defendant, is entitled as the next of kin, on the ground that, admitting…