Bisbing's Estate
Bisbing's Estate
Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal from a decree of distribution. It is asserted, on behalf of the appellant, that he was entitled to participate in that distribution for the reason that he
Anna Bisbing, the alleged widow, appealed from that decree to the Supreme Court, and we have here an appeal from the same decree by the guardian ad litem of her minor child. The Supreme Court, on March 8,1920, in Bisbing’s Est., 266 Pa. 529, filed an opinion holding that the court below did not err in decreeing, upon the evidence presented, that Anna Bisbing had not been the wife of the decedent and was not entitled to participate as the widow in the distribution of his estate. We can, upon this appeal, consider only the questions which were raised in the court below, the evidence which was there produced, and the findings of the court based upon that evidence. The record and the evidence are precisely the same which were considered by the Supreme Court, and the decision of that court must control the disposition of this appeal.
The appeal is dismissed at appellant’s cost.
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- Decedent’s estate — Claim of son — Marriage of parents — Cohabitation and reputation — Dvidence—Presumption—Rebuttal. Cohabitation and reputation are circumstances from which marriage may he presumed, but such presumption may always he re-, butted, and -will -wholly disappear in the face of proof that no marriage, in fact has taken place. A claim of a minor that he is entitled to participate in the distribution of an estate, for the reason that he is the son of the decedent born in lawful wedlock, will not be allowed, where the mother of the claimant testifies that the decedent asked her to get married, but that she declined, and she admits that her relations with the decedent were illicit at their inception, and continued so until his death. Under such circumstances, nothing but proof of actual marriage will suffice to give the claimant standing or establish his legitimacy.