Hoffman v. Watson

Inasmuch as the members of the Court who sat at the original hearing of this case differed as to the construction of the statutes involved, a re-argument was ordered before a frill Bench which haS been heard.

James S. Clark died intestate, unmarried and without any relatives nearer than the appellants, who were his first cousins, and the appellees, who were his grandnieces. He left real estate which he had acquired by purchase, and personal property. The question to be determined is whether the cousins or the grandnieces are entitled to the intestate’s property, and, as he left both realty and…