Seeley v. Price

Christiancy J.

Complainant and defendant were the only children and heirs of John Price, and both resided in the State of Iowa. The defendant was a man of considerable property, and the husband of complainant a farmer in comfortable circumstances. John Price, the father, resided in Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan, where ho owned a farm worth about six thousand dollars, which constituted substantially all his property. His first wife having been dead for some years, he married a second wife in April, 1860; he being then about seventy-four years old, and his wife some ten or twelve years…