Hummel v. Marshall

Litz, Judge :

This appeal is from a final decree entered by the circuit court of Kanawha county, September 29th, 1922, which denied the plaintiff relief on her bill, filed against the heirs of her deceased husband for the recovery of certain real estate conveyed to the husband in his lifetime, alleging that she had purchased the property and paid the consideration for the deed.

The bill shows that plaintiff is the widow of James E. Hummel, who died February 2d, 1920, intestate and without descendants, leaving surviving him the plaintiff and defendants ('collateral kindred), as his sole…