Legal Opinion
Burden v. Burden
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided June 6, 1895No. 17,049PublishedCited by 15 opinions
From the Delaware Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtJordan, J.
Appellee, who is the widow of the testator, Nehemiah Burden, filed her complaint in the lower court against the executor and legatees of the last will of said Nehemiah.
Omitting the formal parts the complaint is as follows:
“The plaintiff complains of the defendants, and says that she was a second wife and is the widow of the deceased, with whom she intermarried in 1876; that to said parties no children were born; that she is now 67 years of age, and illiterate, ignorant, timid old woman, with nothing but an obscure domestic experience of life, utterly and demurely ignorant of business, law and…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Conant v. National State BankIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
- Higham v. HarrisIndiana Supreme Court · 1886
- Shaw v. BarnhartIndiana Supreme Court · 1861
- Fosher v. GuilliamsIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
- Westhafer v. PattersonIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Whitesell v. StricklerIndiana Supreme Court · 1906
- Dudley v. PiggIndiana Supreme Court · 1897
- Lux & Talbott Stone Co. v. DonaldsonIndiana Supreme Court · 1903
- Young v. BiehlIndiana Supreme Court · 1906
- Cameron v. ParishIndiana Supreme Court · 1900
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