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IN RE ESTATE OF KARAS

Nos. 46986, 47092 cons.

61 Ill.2d 40 (1975)

329 N.E.2d 234

In re ESTATE OF LOUIS KARAS. — (Mary Sodermark, Appellant, v. Evangelia Karas, Appellee.) — In re ESTATE OF ROBERT WOODS. — (Margaret Marie Collins, Appellant, v. Addie Wheeler, Adm'r, Appellee.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 2, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Phelps and Wayne R. Andersen, of Burditt and Calkins, of Chicago, for appellant.

Gerald W. Shea, of Berwyn (Robert J. Lifton, of Neistein, Richman, Hauslinger & Young, Ltd., of Chicago, of counsel), for appellee.

Mary Reardon Hooton, of Chicago, for appellant.

Schwartzberg, Barnett & Schwartzberg, Goodman, Krasner & Kipnis, and Zaidenberg, Hoffman & Schoenfeld, all of Chicago (Benjamin H. Cohen and Hugh J. Schwartzberg, of counsel), for appellee.

Devereux Bowly and Charles Linn, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, and James Weill and Jane Stevens, Legal Assistance Foundation, all of Chicago (John Henry Schlegel, of Buffalo, New York, and Joseph Bomba (law student), of counsel), for amicus curiae Deta Mona Trimble and Jessie Trimble.

Judgments affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

These consolidated appeals present the common issue of whether an acknowledged illegitimate child may inherit from her father who died intestate never having married the child's mother. A subsidiary issue involves the right of an illegitimate to be appointed the administrator of the estate under these circumstances.

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