Strough v. Wilder

Appeal from a judgment dismissing the complaint, with costs, entered upon the report oí a referee, and heard in this court on a case which contains all the evidence.

March 27, 1847, Susannah Wilder became the owner in fee-simple and possessed of the land (61-100 of an acre) called the “Moffatt Lot” descriiied in the pleadings. She was then a married woman, but her husband died in 1849, since which event she has remained a widow, residing about a mile from the land with her son, George Wilder, the respondent, until July 15, 1868, when she died, intestate. Her realty, if any, descended to nine…