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JOHNS v. COBB

No. 21516.

402 F.2d 636 (1968)

Frank G. JOHNS, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. Edith Boardman COBB et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 30, 1968.

Petition for Rehearing Denied October 10, 1968.

Certiorari Denied February 24, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. William Cain, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. John F. Doyle, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. John M. Bixler, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. James A. Crooks, James F. Gordy and Donald H. Olson, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER, Senior Circuit Judge, and McGOWAN, Circuit Judge.

Certiorari Denied February 24, 1969. See 89 S.Ct. 876.

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court holding that appellant, an adopted child, is not entitled to take under either of two wills which leave property to the "issue" of his adoptive mother. The first will was executed in 1922, two years before appellant's adoption; this was the will of his adoptive mother's grandmother. The other instrument was executed in 1944,...

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