In re Estate of Bullock

*189 Stacy, C. J.

Can an illegitimate child legally represent its deceased mother, under C. S., 140 and C. S., 137, clauses 4 and 5, and thus share in the distribution of its mother’s father’s estate? "We think not. Such was the holding in Waggoner v. Miller, 26 N. C., 480 (June Term, 1844), and there has been no sufficient change in the statute law since that time to warrant a reversal of this decision.

True, it is provided by C. S., 140, that every illegitimate child of a mother dying intestate shall be considered among her next of kin, and as such "'shall be entitled to share in her personal estate; and, further, that illegitimate children,-born of the same mother, shall be considered legitimate as among themselves, but this is as far as the statute goes. Had the mother of petitioner survived her father, and thus acquired a vested interest in his estate, there would have been no difficulty. But the mother, having predeceased the intestate, never became'the owner of any part of his estate, hence, under the law, as now written, the illegitimate child is not entitled to share in the property in question. See Wilson v. Wilson, 189 N. C., 85 , 126 S. E., 181 ;

Wallace v. Wallace, 181 N. C., 158 , 106 S. E., 501 ;

In re Mericlo, 63 N. Y., Practice Reports, 62.

The case of Skinner v. Wynne, 55 N. C., 41 , cited by appellant, is not in point, as the children there in question were legitimate and took from their grandfather “in their own right.”

Affirmed.