Whiteman v. Backus

Liveuy, Judge:

Elizabeth H. Backus, widow, died intestate on September 30, 1921, and her administrator instituted this suit against her son Thomas E. Backus and daughter Susannah D. Backus, charging that his decedent accumulated during-her widowhood beginning in 1897, $13,561.10, derived from pension, sale of coal, inheritance from Coffman estate, sale of land, timber, rights of way for pipe line, and oil and gas rental and bonuses; that she was of frugal habits, and that her estate was in the hands of the two defendants, and asked for a discovery of, accounting for, and recovery of the…