PRATER v. HORVATH

22083

281 S.C. 411 (1984)

315 S.E.2d 114

Geneva B. PRATER, Administratrix of the Estate of Amela Crouch, a/k/a Minerva Sewell and Minerva A. Sewell, Plaintiff, v. Isabelle HORVATH, George H. McCullic, Thomas Lester Manning, Jr., Helen Manning Smith, Defendants-Respondents, and Julia Taylor Ofner, Elizabeth Rence Rogers, Camille Rence Zimmerman, Sylvia H. Rence, Defendants, and John Nevil Mason, Alan Keith Mason, Ronald Basil Mason, Geoffrey Waller Mason, Defendants-Appellants, and The State of South Carolina, Defendant, and all unknown heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, or otherwise of the late Amelia Crouch, a/k/a Minerva Sewell and Minerva A. Sewell, and all other persons claiming any right, title, estate or interest in the assets of said estate described in the Complaint, any unknown adults being as a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants or persons under disability, or persons in the military service being as a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided April 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Camden Lewis of Austin & Lewis, Columbia, for defendants-appellants.

Daniel A. Speights, Hampton, for defendants-respondents.

Doyet A. Early, III, Bamberg, for plaintiff.

J. Wesley Crum, Denmark, for defendant.

Asst. Atty. Gen. Kenneth P. Woodington, Columbia, for Defendant — State of S. C.

Jack Vassallo, Willingboro, N.J., for defendant-Ofner.


Heard March 19, 1984.

Decided April 18, 1984.

GREGORY, Justice:

This action was brought by the administratrix of the estate of Minerva Amelia Sewell Crouch (Minerva) who died intestate in Bamberg County in 1975. The sole issue on appeal is whether Minerva's mother, Nellie Josephine Lauterback (Josephine), born over a century ago, was legitimate or illegitimate. We affirm the order of the circuit court finding Josephine legitimate.

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