Kellar v. Fink

Sarah Baum, the wife of John Kellar, for some reason or other, only known [to the parties, chose to keep her marriage secret during many years, although cohabiting with her husband: a strange instance of a woman preferring the worse than equivocal position of a concubine to the honorable and advantageous one of a married woman. She made her will as a single woman, naming as her executor, her son-in-law, Peabody, who, proving-unfaithful to his trust, was removed, and Thomas Powell was appointed by the court in his place. Powell also became a defaulter and was dismissed; and in 1842 John D.…