Croft v. Taylor

The plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment. The complaint alleges that plaintiff was born out of wedlock in June, 1891, in New Brunswick, Can., the daughter of defendant and her first cousin, one Rice, but that defendant has at all times denied such maternity; that there are no public records of plaintiff’s birth in New Brunswick, but that under the laws thereof, a certificate of birth may now be executed by a person having knowledge of the facts and that such certificate may now be recorded there.

The pleading is further to the effect that there is now no one living other than this defendant…