McClanahan v. Trafford

The only question in this case is as to the.*411sufficiency of the complaint, to which a demurrer was filed and sustained in the circuit court. The facts stated in the-complaint are, that on the 1st day of April, 1869, Joseph. McHenry died intestate, the owner in fee simple of four-ninths of certain real estate in Posey county, Indiana; that he left surviving him, as his only heirs at law, his wife, Nancy McHenry, and Ellen McClanahan, his only child, the plaintiff herein; that afterward, in 1873, said Nancy McHenry died intestate, the owner in fee simple as heir at law of said Joseph McHenry,…