MATSON, JUSTICE.
Appeal from a judgment construing M.S.A. 525.172 and declaring male decedent's mother to be his sole heir to the exclusion of an illegitimate son whose paternity had theretofore been adjudicated under § 257.23.
The sole issue is whether an illegitimate child may inherit from one adjudged in a paternity proceeding under § 257.23 to be his father when such judicially declared father dies without having declared in writing, before a...
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