Duncombe v. Richards

At the beginning of the year 1878 Hezekiah Selleck, a man 82 years of age, was living in the family of James S. Richards the defendant, in Yan Burén county in this State. Mr. Selleck was a man of some education, was prudent even to excess in his expenditures, strictly temperate, and had accumulated a very considerable property. He had never married; a fact which is attributed by some witnesses to a disappointment in his mature manhood, and which probably tended to make him somewhat shy, and to prefer the retirement of a plain country life which he found with defendant. Defendant was his…