Hoover v. Agnew

— This action is by appellant, the widow of Jacob Hoover, deceased, against appellee, as the administrator of her deceased husband’s insolvent estate. It is averred in the complaint, amongst other things, that the husband died in 1882, the owner of a farm with a dwelling-house thereon,, in which he and appellant, his second wife, were living at the time of his death, and in which she lived for about a year thereafter, and until the real estate was sold to pay debts; that at the time of the husband’s death there was twenty acres of growing wheat in a field immediately adjacent to the dwelling,…