Hendrickson v. Cruse

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant and plaintiff below, Mrs. Rosa Hendrickson, owns a small tract of land in Madison county upon which is located the old homestead residence of James N. Crutcher, who died in 1888 and at the time owned a large farm in Madison county, a part of which is the small tract now owned by plaintiff. The executor of Crutcher, pursuant to the provisions contained in his will, sold 60 acres of the James Crutcher farm to a Mrs. Murphy, who was the mother of plaintiff and also of John Murphy and Mrs. Agee. Mrs. Murphy died in 1896, and in the…