Goughnour v. Zimmerman

Citations

• 237 Pa. 599
• 85 A. 874
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 972

Syllabus

<p>Intestate laws — Illegitimates—Beal estate — Acts of April 27, 1855, P. L. 868, and June. 5,1888, P. L. 88.</p> <p>1. Where there are several illegitimate children born of the same mother, and one of them dies prior to the passage of the Act of June 5, 1883, P. L. 88, intestate, leaving neither mother nor issue, her surviving illegitimate brothers and sisters do not inherit her real estate, although derived from the mother by will.</p> <p>2. The Act of April 27, 1855, P. L. 368, did not legitimate illegitimates, but gave to the mother and illegitimate children the capacity to inherit from each other only.</p>