Dodge v. Beeler
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Doniphan District Court. Catherine Beeler, as plaintiff, and one of the heirs of ¥m. D. Beeler, deceased, fled her petition for the partition of certain real estate of which said deceased died seized. The other heirs of said deceased were made the defendants; and among these heirs were Ora E. Dodge (formerly Ora E. Beeler) and her son Frcmk Beeler.
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Error from Doniphan District Court. Catherine Beeler, as plaintiff, and one of the heirs of ¥m. D. Beeler, deceased, fled her petition for the partition of certain real estate of which said deceased died seized. The other heirs of said deceased were made the defendants; and among these heirs were Ora E. Dodge (formerly Ora E. Beeler) and her son Frcmk Beeler. Said Frank duly appeared by a guardian ad litem,. The district court, at the September Term 1873, decided that as Marion • Beeler, (a son of said ¥m. D. Beeler and the father of said Frank,) had died before the decease of said ¥m. D.,…
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The parties to this suit claim as heirs of William D. Beeler, deceased. The only controversy in this court is between Ora E. Dodge, plaintiff in error, and her minor son, Frank Beeler. The facts are these: Ora E. Dodge, then Ora E. Canfield, in 1863 married Marion Beeler, son of William D. Beeler. In 1864 Marion Beeler died, leaving as his heirs his widow (the said Ora,) and an infant son, Frank Beeler. Subsequently William D. Beeler died. Did the interest, which would have descended to Marion Beeler, if he had survived his father, descend _…
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