Estate of McCully

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 78
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 211

Syllabus

<p>Illegitimates — Inheritance from — Escheat.</p> <p>Under the law of Pennsylvania there is no right of inheritance from an •illegitimate child of same mother which inures to collaterals in either direction except as provided in the acts of assembly. The acts were not • designed to legitimatize bastai'ds.</p> <p>The legitimate children of a woman cannot inherit from a bastard child • of their mother, and, the mother and grandmother of the bastard being ■ dead, her estate passes to the commonwealth by way of - escheat, she having died intestate.</p>