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IN RE ESTATE OF SPANO

49 N.J. 263 (1967)

229 A.2d 645

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALBERTO SPANO, DECEASED. SANTO SPANO, CLAIMANT-APPELLANT, v. VINCENT J. COMMISA, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF ALBERTO SPANO, DECEASED, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided May 8, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert J. Carluccio argued the cause for claimant-appellant (Mr. Russel E. Greco, attorney).

Mr. Ferdinand J. Biunno argued the cause for defendant-respondent.

Mr. William J. Walsh, Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey, argued the cause for respondent State of New Jersey (Mr. Arthur J. Sills, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Mr. Louis Sherman appeared on behalf of Giuseppe Spano, Pietro Spano, Nicolena Spano Mararesi, allegedly the cousins of the decedent (Messrs. Raff, Sherman & Scheider, attorneys).

The opinion of the court was delivered by SCHETTINO, J.

The question in this case is whether a child acknowledged by his natural father under Italian law is entitled to inherit his father's estate in New Jersey.

The father, Alberto Spano, died intestate and a resident of Newark, New Jersey, owning property there.

He was born in Italy. During the period of 1907 to 1915 he cohabited with Leonarda Todaro in the...

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