In Re the Estate of Smith

JONES, District Judge.

*406Should adopted children inherit from their adoptive parents’ relatives: This is the sole question presented by this appeal. Appellant, as guardian of the estate of an adopted child, asserts that the probate court erred in declining to include said minor as an heir to the adoptive father’s mother’s estate. Respondent relies on the decision of this court in Re Harrington’s Estate, 96 Utah 252, 85 P.2d 630, 120 A.L.R. 830. It was there determined that an adopted child was not “issue” of the adopting father’s parent.1

Appellant contends that Harrington should now be overruled…