THE SLINGSBY CASE
CHILD'S LEGITIMACY UPHELD. London, February 3. Juugment in the Slingsby case upholds the child's legitimacy. The Judge said be had grave reason for thinking that detectives had been employed before the child's birth. Ho considered the story of the substitutiou of another child to be untrue.
The Slingsby case, beard before Mr. Justice Bargrace Deane, concerned a claim made on behalf of Charles Eugene Edward Slingsby ; aged four .years, that he was a legitimate son of Mr. Charles Henry Reynard Slingsby and his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Morgan Slingsby, of Scriven Park, near Knaresborough. Upon tho issue depended the question of his succession to the Slingsby estates, involving a fortune of £200,000. Mr. Slingsby's two brothers, who were parties cited in the case, opposed the claim, alleging that tho child was the illegitimate son of a woman named Lilian Anderson, of San Francisco, and that Mrs. Slingsby adopted him, and had since falsely passed him off as her own and her husband's lawful child. Mrs. Slingsby denied this, and said that she gave birth to the child at San Francisco on September 1, 1910.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2377, 5 February 1915, Page 6
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186THE SLINGSBY CASE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2377, 5 February 1915, Page 6
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