Estate of Ghirardelli

Citations

• 4 Coffey 1

Syllabus

<p>Pretermited Child-—Proof of Paternity.—It is incumbent upon a person claiming to be the child and pretermitted heir of the testator to establish her claim as such child to a reasonable and moral certainty—a certainty that convinces and directs the understanding and satisfies the reason and judgment of those who are bound to act conscientiously upon it. The question of paternity should be established by strict and plenary proof.</p>