August Braum's Estate

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

August Braum, aged seventy years, a widower with children and grandchildren, married Gertrude Rohrback January 9,1922, she being then eighteen years of age. After the marriage they dwelt together as husband and wife, for a period of about three months, on the old Braum homestead in West Elizabeth, Allegheny County. At the end of that period the wife left her husband’s home and returned to the home of her parents From that time until the death of her husband, January 23, 1924, she never cohabited with him nor had any relationship or communication with him. She did not…