Pinnell v. Copps

Sometime prior to 1898, Dennis Curran married Eliza Pinnell, who was then a widow with two sons by a former marriage. One of these sons, Sherman A. Pinnell, was then married and had a two-year-old daughter. All the parties were residents of Astoria, Oregon, and for a time Mr. and Mrs. Curran lived in the same house with her son Sherman and his family. In 1898, Dennis Curran went to Alaska, where he remained for approximately twenty years; he did not send his wife any money; nor did he communicate with her in any way, and she thought him dead. Eliza Curran continued a member of her son’s…