McFadden v. McNorton

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that \the right of an adopted child to inherit is to be determined by the law in force at the death of the person from whom the inheritance is claimed.\
• noting that “a statute ought to be interpreted in such manner that it may have effect, and not to be found vain and elusive”
• construing adoption and descent and distribution laws and concluding that “they emphasize the specific intention to put an adopted child on the same footing as the natural child”
• \[t]he inherita[nce] status of an adopted person is to be determined by the lawmaking body\
• “No one is heir of a living person. No vested right arises therefore until the death of the person from whom one seeks to take.”
• “[A] statute ought to be interpreted in such manner that it may have effect, and not to be found vain and elusive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).