Fields v. Fields

The plaintiff, Robert L. Fields, seeks to be decreed the owner of property left by his deceased foster father, Benjamin F. Fields, as against the claim thereto made by the defendant, Hester Fields, the second wife of Benjamin. This controversy came into the superior court for Asotin county as a suit in equity, when the estate of Benjamin was ready for distribution in the probate proceeding in which it was being administered in that court by Hester, as administra- trix. While she was made a defendant as administra-trix, as well as personally, and other possible heir claimants to the property…