Boackle v. Bloom

GOODWYN, Justice.

The .question in this case is whether a child unborn when his father’s will was made is entitled to take a child’s part of the father’s estate the same as if the father had died intestate, under the provisions of Code 1940, Tit. 61, § 10. (This section was amended by Act No. 112, approved April 14, 1956, Acts Sp.Sess. 1956, Vol. I, p. 439, by making the section also applicable to a child adopted after the making of a will. The amendment has no bearing on this case.)

Section 10, prior to the amendment, provided as follows:

“Whenever a testator has a child, born after the making…