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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 975
    WEISFLOCK et v. SIGLING et
    No. 20081.
    Supreme Court
    On motion to certify.
    Dock. Sept. 2, 1926;
    4 Abs. 623.
    389. DESCENT & DISTRIBUTION — Can one ignore kinship and claim by representation; — Who is “next of kin” under 8574-6 GC.?
    Attorneys — Cyrus Newby, Hillsboro, for Weisflock; Ed. M. Wiggins, Lynchburg, and Smith, Rogers & Smith, Wilmington, for Sigling et.
   The questions presented in the Supreme Court are, who is “next of kin” within meaning of 8574-6 GC. and do legal representatives of one in same degree of kinship as such, “next of kin”, take by representation with him, and can one ignore his position as next of kin and claim by representation?