Moore v. Moore
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Dade Circuit Court. — Ron. R. G. Timmonds, Judge. (1) The effect of the statute, “Dastards shall be capable of inheriting and transmitting inheritance on the part of their mother, and such mother shall inherit from her bastard child or children in like manner as if they.had been lawfully begotten of her,” enacted in this and other States, is to give to the bastard, in Taw, as in fact, a mother, which he did not have at common law; to concede to him inheritable…
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Appeal from Dade Circuit Court. — Ron. R. G. Timmonds, Judge. (1) The effect of the statute, “Dastards shall be capable of inheriting and transmitting inheritance on the part of their mother, and such mother shall inherit from her bastard child or children in like manner as if they.had been lawfully begotten of her,” enacted in this and other States, is to give to the bastard, in Taw, as in fact, a mother, which he did not have at common law; to concede to him inheritable blood on his mother’s side, thus placing him, in all' respects, upon the same footing as her lawfully begotten child, and,…
1Opinion of the CourtBrace, P. J.
— This is a suit for the partition of two hundred acres of land in Dade county, described in the petition, of which the plaintiff claims that he is entitled to an undivided one-fourth, and that the defendants are entitled to the1 other undivided three-fourths.
' The circuit court found that the plaintiff had no interest in the premises, and from the judgment against him in favor of the defendants, he appeals. On August 26, 1896, Alvin *435•W. Moore, his father and mother being then dead, died intestate, the owner in fee simple of the premises, without lineal descendants. The plaintiff is the only…
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