Bateman v. Bennett

This cause was transferred from the Supreme Court.

Appellant’s amended complaint avers the following material facts: Tbat one James Adams died testate; tbat at tbe time of his death he was seized in fee simple of certain real estate in Warrick county, Indiana; that he left surviving him Zilpha, who was a childless second wife, Rachael Conner, a daughter, and' Homer AdamS, a son, children by a former marriage; that by item two of his will the testator left to said Zilpha “such parts, portion, and interest in my [his] real and personal property as she would take under the statutes of Indiana,…