MacCallum v. Seymour's Administrator

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• holding that although adopted persons had “historically been a target of discrimination,” social prejudices failed to support their continued exclusion from intestacy law
• holding that statute denying adopted children right to inherit from collateral heirs violated Common Benefits Clause, and declaring plaintiff to be lawful heir of estate of collateral relative
• holding that statute denying adopted children right to inherit from collateral heirs violated Common Benefits Clause, and declaring plaintiff to be lawful heir of estate of collateral relative
• noting that symbolic and psychological damage resulting from unconstitutional classification depriving adopted children of right to inherit from collateral kin may be more significant than any concern over material values
• noting that symbolic and psychological damage resulting from unconstitutional classification depriving adopted children of right to inherit from collateral kin may be more significant than any concern over material values
• rejecting presumed intent as basis for statutory exclusion of adopted children from right to inherit from collateral kin

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).