Taylor v. Taylor

This appeal is from an order dismissing the intervening’ petition of Mrs. Luzelle Hodge Allen seeking to become a party to a contest over tlie will of Len Taylor. Petitioner shows that she is the adopted daughter of Mary L. Hodge, a deceased sister of Len Taylor, and her claim is that by virtue of her adoption by this sister she has the right to participate in the contest as. an heir of Len Taylor.

The question presented is whether or not an adopted child of a deceased sister of an intestate has the right to share in the estate of the intestate, who dies leaving neither widow, nor children,…