Buckles v. Smith

May Maud Buckles, claiming to be the adopted daughter and sole heir, and J. W. Buckles, appearing as the administrator of the estate of Peter Schafer or Shafer, now deceased, as joint plaintiffs, instituted an action in the district court of Logan county against William E. Smith and others, and being unsuccessful, appeal to this court from the judgment rendered in the trial court in favor of the defendants.

The plaintiffs’ petition, containing two causes of action, was in the short form. In the first cause of action it was alleged that Schafer died intestate April 26, 1927, owning the real…