Moore v. Saxton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Winchester ascertaining the heirs at law and distributees of an intestate estate and ordering distribution accordingly, taken by the plaintiffs to and tried by the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Reed, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the defendants, confirming the action of the Court of Probate, and appeal by the plaintiffs.
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Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Winchester ascertaining the heirs at law and distributees of an intestate estate and ordering distribution accordingly, taken by the plaintiffs to and tried by the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Reed, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the defendants, confirming the action of the Court of Probate, and appeal by the plaintiffs. Ruth Deborah Richards, a resident of the town of Winchester in this State, died intestate on January 12th, 1914, leaving personal estate and no husband, descendants,…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
By the law of California, in which State their parents were domiciled at the time of their birth, the children of Charles Platt Saxton and Emma Byrne were, at birth, legitimate. By a statute of that State enacted. in 1850 and still in force, the issue of marriages null in the law are declared legitimate, and the courts of that State have determined that this provision is applicable to the issue of marriages null because bigamous. Laws of California, 1850, p. 188, § 2; Civil Code of California, 1872, § 1387; Graham v. Bennet, 2 Cal. 503. Their personal status as legitimates thus established is…
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