Cloud v. Bruce

Suit to quiet title to real estate.

John, W. Johnson was the owner of two tracts of land, in Marion county, Indiana. He inherited one-half of said tracts of land from his father, Harrison L. Johnson, who died intestate in 1856, and the other half from his mother, Margaret Peck Johnson,-widow of said Harrison L. Johnson, said Margaret having died intestate in 1857.

*172John W. died, childless and- intestate, in 1872. He was never married. It is admitted on both sides, “ that the said John W. Johnson left surviving him the following kindred in the maternal line, viz.: his aunt, Harriet Williams,…