Clary v. Watkins

Day, O.

The facts necessary to an understanding of the question presented by this appeal are substantially as follows: On August 21,1898, Mary E. Gooseman, a resident of Nemaha county, Nebraska, died intestate, seized in fee of a large amount of real estate situated in said county, a specific description of which seems unnecessary to be set out. She left surviving her neither issue nor husband, father, mother, brother, sister, niece, nephew, grandfather, grandmother or grandchildren; her nearest relatives being uncles, an aunt, cousins and second cousins. There were surviving her two uncles,…