Hunter v. Allen

Jason Hunter was a cattle raiser and rancher, and owned stock ranches in Malheur and Harney Counties. He died in the year 1916, intestate, and left surviving him a widow, Malinda A. Hunter, who was his second wife, and ten children, five of whom were the issue of his first marriage and five of his second. The widow, at the time of Hunter’s death, was about sixty years of age. She determined to continue the operation of the stock ranches, and, with that end in view, acquired the interest of all of the children in the property of her late husband. The plaintiff, Clarence J. Hunter, is the…