Nicholson v. Nicholson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Thomas Nicholson, a resident of Ohio, died in 1857. -He had been twice married. By his first marriage he had two children, William J. and Mary. By his second wife, Margaret Nicholson, he had several children, Levi, Eliza and Katherine and others. Shortly before his death, Thomas and his wife Margaret conveyed to the eldest son, William J., a tract of land in Ohio as an advancement and as his full share in the estate of his father. This- was accepted by William J.

Mary, the eldest daughter of Thomas, died in 1860, and while her stepmother.…