Remmington v. Lewis

This action of ejectment was brought on the demise of Nancy Lewis, to recover a small tract of land which she claims as heir to her husband, Alexander Lewis, who was a bastard, and survived his mother, but died without issue and intestate.

The defendant claims the land also as heir by reason of his being the son of the same mother as Alexander Lewis, and also resists the claim of the lessor on the ground that she has no title as wife, and is not, by law, the heir of her deceased husband, because there is not such total failure of the kindred of her husband as makes the case in which, by law,…