Copenhaver v. Copenhaver

This was an application to the probate court of Lincoln county, for distribution of an intestate estate. Jacob Copenhaver, being possessed of a large amount of real and personal estate in Lincoln county, died intestate in the year 1878, leaving neither descendants, father, mother, brothers nor sisters living, but leaving thirty-two nephews and nieces and twenty-five known *56grand-nephews and grand-nieces, (the plaintiffs and defendants in this suit,) and the unknown heirs of one niece who was living at the time of the death of the intestate, hut who has since died. These nephews and nieces and…