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· 7/10/1951

In Re Wulf's Estate

Citations

  • 48 N.W.2d 890
  • 242 Iowa 1012
  • 33 A.L.R. 2d 698
  • 1951 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 436

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  • more than forty witnesses to “common talk or general report in the neighborhood” and many others who testified about the father’s direct recognition (cleaned up)
  • “It is generally held the recognition need not be ‘universal or so general and public as to have been known by all’; need not be continuous, ‘covering the whole period up to and including the time of the death of the putative father.’” (citation omitted)

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Judges: Smith

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