Court Opinion

ID: 9444310
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 20:56:01.585461+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:48.500825
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SWAN, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part).
I agree that the judgment must be reversed and that the plaintiff Alberta can take nothing as widow of the deceased wage-earner. But I cannot agree that the cause should be remanded for further findings by the Administrator as to the status of the child plaintiff. Since the mail-order divorces were a nullity, the child was illegitimate. Section 1135 (6) would permit her to be “deemed the legitimate child” of her father, only if an *196action of the character described had been brought and the judgment therein so determined. No such action was brought; hence she continued to be an illegitimate child. I do not believe that under New York law the Administrator may exercise the jurisdiction conferred upon the state court to affect her status. Consequently, I would direct that upon remand of the cause judgment be entered for the defendant.