IN RE ESTATE McCOLLUM


88 So.2d 537 (1956)

IN RE ESTATE OF SAMUEL McCOLLUM, DECEASED. IN THE MATTER OF PETITION OF KENNETH McCOLLUM.

Supreme Court of Florida, Division B.

June 13, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank T. Cannon and Charles A. Powers, Jr., Jacksonville, for appellants.

Horace E. Hill and Norton Josephson, Daytona Beach, for appellee.


ROBERTS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of a circuit court affirming an order of a probate court finding that the appellee, Kenneth McCollum, is entitled to share in the estate of Samuel McCollum, deceased, as the illegitimate son of the deceased. The appellee's claim is based on the provision of Section 731.29, Fla. Stat. 1955, F.S.A., declaring that an illegitimate child is the heir of his mother and "also of the person who, in writing, signed in the presence...

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