Bunnell v. Hay

— Thomas A. Bunnell, the appellant, was the owner of the personal property involved in this controversy. He became a resident of White county, Indiana, in December, 1877, and continuously there resided until the trial of this action in the court below. His family, at the time he became a resident of said county, consisted of his wife and an adopted child. In March, 1878, appellant’s wife died. Thereafter appellant employed a family to keep house for him, he providing the house, the greater part of the furniture, and nearly all the fuel, and paying the persons who kept house for him, in…