Brill's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

This is an appeal from the refusal of the court below to allow a claim presented by appellant at the audit of the account of the executrix of J. Edward Brill who died on January 10, 1936, leaving a will, executed in 1922, in which he gave his entire estate to his widow, whom he also named executrix.

In 1909 or 1910, although then married to Edith C. Brill, his widow, Brill went through the form of a marriage ceremony with the appellant Mary B. Betz, then Mary B. Seabrooke, using the name of Dawson. Thereafter, in 1911, a child, allegedly the son of the decedent,…