Mace v. Batchelder

1 Citing case

  1. Shepherd v. Murphy

    61 S.W.2d 746 (Mo. 1933)   Cited 28 times

    Secs. 314, 14079, R.S. 1929; 27 Amer. Eng. (2 Ed.) 334; 1 C.J. 1400-1402; Estate Paul Broderick, 158 Wn. 377, 291 P. 325; Roberts v. Roberts, 160 Minn. 140, 199 S.W. 581; Clarkson v. Hatton, 143 Mo. 47. The court erred in its ruling and judgment, in that inheritance from adopted children, in this State, is limited solely to the surviving adopting parent, and no provisions of the Missouri law provides for the collateral kindred inheriting, in the event of the adopting parent dying prior to the death of the adopted child. Hockaday v. Lynn, supra; Reindeers v. Koppleman, supra; Yastes Estate, 196 P. 1077, 108 Kan. 721; Baird v. Yates, 200 P. 280; Appeal Simons, 115 A. 765, 121 Me. 97; McMaster v. Forbes, 115 N.E. 487, 226 Mass. 396; Mace v. Batchelder, 114 A. 818, 80 N.H. 131; Dodson v. Ward, 240 P. 991, 31 N.M. 54; Russell v. Jordan, 147 P. 694, 58 Colo. 445; Coleman v. Swick, 75 N.E. 807, 218 Ill. 33; Baker v. Clowser, 138 N.W. 837, 158 Iowa 156; Edwards v. Yearby, 85 S.E. 19, 168 N.C. 663; Fisher v. Browning, 66 So. 132, 107 Miss. 729; In re Webb's Estate, 95 A. 419, 250 Pa. 179. Alva F. Lindsay and Mayer, Conkling Sprague for respondents.