Kruse v. Steffens

This was a suit in chancery, brought by Henry C. Kruse, in the Randolph Circuit Court, to the April term, 1866, against Otto Steffens, Marie Steffens and Frederick Schrieber. It appears from the record that one Diedrich, Garloch died intestate, about the 1st of March, 1853, seized in fee of certain real estate, and was in possession thereof, at the time of his death; that he left surviving him, a widow named Marie, and an only child, named Dorothy, at the time, about four years old; that the widow remained .in possession of the lands after her husband’s death, until the first of December…