Roller v. Blair

The complaint in this case alleges that the appellees, plaintiffs below*, are husband and wife; that the . wife, Elizabeth, was one of the children and heirs of JacobHarter, deceased, who died in Miami county, Indiana, the owner of valuable real and personal property; that the value of his property, over and above all indebtedness, was $3,119.16, and to one-third of that sum Elizabeth was entitled; that long before the date of the death of her father she had resided in "Wells county, Indiana; that on the 29th day of May, 1879, the appellant came to her house for the purpose of buying her…