Whiteman v. Swem

This was an agreed case in which Melinda Swem was plaintiff and Elizabeth J. Whiteman and Robert Whiteman were defendants, and was submitted to the court below on substantially the following statement of facts: Benjamin D. Swem died testate on the 1st day of May, 1877, leaving surviving him his widow, the said Melinda Swem, with whom he had lived for a period of about twenty-five-years and by whom he had no children, and the defendant Elizabeth J. Whiteman, intermarried with the said Robert Whiteman, his daughter by a former marriage ; that, at the time of his death, he was the owner of one…