Schoonmaker v. Schoonmaker

In the year 1873 the forty-acre tract of land now in controversy was conveyed to Susan Katherine Schoonmaker, wife of the defendant, Nelson Schoonmaker. In 1876, while still seised of this land, Mrs. Schoonmaker died intestate, survived by her husband and five children, all of whom as we understand the record were then infants. Thereafter one of these children died, leaving her father, Nelson Schoonmaker, her only heir. Plaintiff, who is one of the sons of Susan Katherine Schoonmaker, claims a share in said forty-acre tract as one of the heirs of his mother; and brings this action to have…