Baird v. Yates

Citations

• 108 Kan. 721
• 196 P. 1077
• 1921 Kan. LEXIS 251

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Descents and Distributions — Parents by Adoption Inherit from. Their Adopted Child’s Estate. The word “parents,” used in sections of the statute of descents and distributions which provide that if an intestate leave neither wife nor issue the whole of his estate shall go to his parents, and if one of his parents be dead, then to the surviving parent (Gen. Stat. 1915, §§3842, 3843), includes parents by adoption.</p> <p>2. Same — Surviving Natural Parent Also Inherits. There is no statute which destroys capacity of a natural parent to inherit from his child adopted by another, and on death of such a child, intestate, and leaving neither wife nor issue, his surviving parents, by nature and by adoption, inherit his estate.</p>