Bristor v. Bristor

Franklin, C.

Appellants William A. Bristor and Elizabeth Hamlet, as the only children and as heirs of Samuel M. Bristor, deceased, sued Esther Bristor, their mother, and the widow of said deceased, for two-thirds of the rent for the home residence occupied by the widow.

The appellee and said Samuel M. Bristor were married in 1842, and he died in 1879 intestate. Appellee was the daughter of one Christopher Kellum, deceased, and in July, 1842, she and her brother, John Kellum, agreed upon a partition among themselves of all the real estate of which their father died seized, they being his only…