Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-09-18
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Thursday, Sept. l..
william Willsss, for burglary, vas
sentenced to Is nonfhs q bard labor 10
he 6lass Prison.
Snss 70. Whinier. This case vas given
70 the jery 81 o'clock At IS they
reported ,hsy had betn unable % ssfes and
there vas No pfospecs Of IN agreement.
and they were ,hsrsupon discharged from
il fusthsr consideration. Ths respondent
ssye e.ii In Ire sum Of $500 far his ap-
De CO n the December term
The criminsl docket vAs s1spended until
N,r dsy pexf, to sive place to several civil
ez.es specially assigned-
Erneee a. Lyon W. William Harrison
Lyoa ., as. Heath 6 Tuell for pill. /;
Baker. Baker & Cornish for delta. This
il an scsioa Of deb: aaaiast the defts. ~
executor, Of the sili Of Abigail L. Sanford,
late Of Manchester; addamAnum $4,000.
The plf. SAYS shxf by the tsfms OF the viii
Of A oiasiI L. Sanford she gave and be-
oueasaed to each Of hsg rsphevs and Deicss
wha might be living 1t her deeessA the sum
Of $1,000, aud tbs rhis sum ia row d1e TO
Lin Is ore Of hef nsphe~s, but that the
dsfts. refuse payment. TIE suit 10 based
upou tie statute Of 1887, which provides
ih.s ...n ill gitimste child born after March
"a, 1854, 10 the heir of his parents who
inter mary. And provided the father
Of an illssitimsts child adopts him
or her ir.s his family, such Guild
10 also -as heir OF his or her
father. And in either OF the foregoing
cases such ohiii md its Issue shall inner q
from lis par-ris respectively SGD from
/. cir Ii zeal and eolla.ersi kindred. and these
from such ca,i aud IS issue. the same IS
il leIi mate The pif. is 20 yeAfs old
ard Ives in Sidney, and II il claimed IN bis
behalf tina. he wss the ilegiiimste son OF
Tabor LYON, now deceased. who was
orc he. to Abigail L. Sanford. Il Is.
cl.imsd that his r,u;her, whose made name
was Aurilla C. Burden, snd who
10 now 62 years Of ase, was married
in Washington in this State in ls4s
to James 8russell from whom the wss
divorced; that in 1856 she married Charles
W Farrer from waom she was also divorced
in 1862; ,hYt in 1863 she married Bradbury
True OF Mt. Desert but that 1t suoseq aentiy
trasspired that True already had lawful
wife liviog at shat tina; tbs: she went to
keep house for Taeo: Lyon, AID that while
shere the plaintiff was begotton by Lyon;
that after his birth in 1865, at the house OF
Lyon, he ard bis mother continued TO live
in the family. Ly on treating him - bis 500,
until 1872 when his father and mother were
lawfully married. and this, it is claimed,
brings him within the statute and makes
him q legal heir OF Abigail Sanford
It WAS also further stated in the
opening Of the counsel that in 1875 the
mother obtsined divorce from Lyon and
subsequen' married man by the name
Of Pa.,, who is now deceased. The mother
was called as the frat witness for the
pls'n.if aud was testifying at the time Of
he adjournment.
Itappears hat the estate is q large one
and that il the plaintiff has legal claim
there will be other sums than the one uat
for coming to him. but which are not now
due. The older children Of TGber Lyon,
born in wedlock, resist the claim Of the
plaintiff. The case excites good deal Of
interest, as it is believe to be the first
arising under the statute.