Meeker v. Campbell

The bill is for partition of lands of which Elizabeth S. Campbell died seized, among her three children and a child of a deceased son. Mrs. Campbell had no children by her second husband, William S. Campbell. He is made a party defendant as administrator of his deceased wife's estate, presumably because he collected rents. He is also a defendant individually. He is not a proper party to the suit in either capacity. He had no issue by his wife, and consequently has no curtesy in the land. Nor has he an estate under the act of 1926 (P.L. p. 77), which provides that husband and wife inherit from…