McCullough v. McCullough

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This wasi an action between certain members of a family of two brothers and seven sisters and their spouses to determine what interest, if any, some of them had in fifty acres of land which they inherited from a deceased brother who died intestate. .

This brother, John J. McCullough, single, died in July, 1903, seized of fifty acres of Morris county land, a half interest in an incumbered residence in Herington, and a half interest in a run-down telephone plant at Herington. He also had an insurance policy-for $1,000 which was of questionable…