Wharton's Estate

Citations

• 218 Pa. 296
• 67 A. 414
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 506

Syllabus

<p>Decedent’s estate — Illegitimates—Marriage—Evidence.</p> <p>A declaration in a father’s will that a boy named therein is “my son” is not in itself sufficient to support the legitimacy of the boy so as to enable him to participate in a portion of an estate left by his deceased father’s brother, where there is nothing to show that the testator and the boy’s mother were ever actually married, or that they ever lived together as man and wife, or were recognized as, or held themselves out to be, man and wife.</p>