Steinhilber v. Holmes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

AtkinsoN, J. :

This is an action in ejectment brought to recover the possession • of 16.53 acres of land in Dickinson county. In July, 1886, Frederick Eicholtz died testate. He devised to his daughters, Sarah Catharine Steinhilber and Martha Ellen Holmes, plaintiff and defendant, certain lands of which the tract in controversy is a part. George A. Rush, a brother-in-law of plaintiff and Mrs. Holmes, was appointed executor of the estate. During the greater part of the year before and for several years after the death of her father, plaintiff was absent…