In Re Walther's Estate

About the beginning of the present century, Otto Walther and his wife Margret established a home upon a tract of 160 acres of logged-over land in Tillamook County, Oregon, which they developed into a dairy farm. There they spent the remainder of their lives. They became well-known and respected members of the Tillamook community. Having no children of their own, they took into their home (probably in the year 1905) the respondent, Ulrich Wyss, who was then about seven years old, and had been bereaved of both parents. He lived with them until he was about fourteen, when he ran away and was…