Schilling v. Parsons, Administrator

This appeal comes to this court as the result of the efforts of appellant, petitioner below, to secure to herself as sole distributee, the estate of appellee’s decedent. Appellant’s right as sole distributee to said estate is founded upon the claim that she was the common-law wife of said decedent.

The case was tried to the court and upon proper request the court made a special finding of facts. The facts found by the court are as follows:

“1. The court finds that Otto M. Schilling, the decedent, died intestate, a resident of Allen County, Indiana, on the 13th day of June, 1938, residing at the…