Sparks v. Bodensick

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

This is a controversy over the title to a tract of land that was owned by C. A. Spradau at the time of his death. Spradau was never married, and *6had no children. Both his parents died in his lifetime. He died intestate in 1873. The sole heirs of his mother living at the time of his death were her brothers, George Shaffer and Jacob K. Shaffer. The property therefore descended one-half to the Shaffers and one-half to the heirs of Spradau’s father, unless the matter is affected by the fact that while the mother and her heirs were American…