Fred Business News-  woman born out of wedlock to a direct descendant of the family that struck it rich marketing Jell-O more than a century ago has been denied what she considers her just desserts.

The Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled Thursday that Elizabeth McNabb of Longview, Wash., can't share in the multimillion-dollar estate of her late mother, Barbara Woodward Piel.

Piel's grandfather, Orator Francis Woodward, bought the Jell-O trademark in 1899 from inventor Pearle Bixby Wait and, within a decade, ...   more »