IN RE ESTATE OF GOMPF

No. 38060.

175 Ohio St. 400 (1964)

IN RE ESTATE OF GOMPF.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 15, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William B. Saxbe, attorney general, and Mr. Donald A. Hertlein, for appellant.

Messrs. Moore, Myers, Parsell & Firstenberger, for appellees.


TAFT, C. J.

The question to be determined is whether a person, who was designated as an heir by a decedent pursuant to Section 2105.15, Revised Code, is, within the meaning of Section 5731.09, Revised Code, a "person recognized by the decedent as an adopted child and designated by such decedent as an heir under a statute of this * * * state," even where there is no other showing, apart from such designation, that the...

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