Kest v. State

OPINION

By MERRICK, J.

This is an action for declaratory judgment to determine the manner in which this estate shall descend. This Court has determined from the evidence that the one claiming as distributee was the bastard child of decedent’s wife who had pre-deceased him. There are no next of kin found to be in existence. If claimant fails to establish himself as a distributee under the statute, then the estate will escheat to the State of Ohio.

Claimant’s mother bore him out of wedlock to an unknown father. Several years later she married the decedent in this case. After living with decedent…