Parker v. Maslin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

In December, 1908, the appellant filed suit against the appellee and others in the district court of Miami county to partition a tract of land, *131which it is claimed had been owned by the mother of the appellant, Blanche G. Maslin and Ralph D. Parker; that the mother had first willed the land to Mrs. Maslin and thereafter conveyed the land to her; that after the death of the mother the appellant had instituted proceedings in a surrogate’s court in New York, in which state the mother had died, and of which Mrs., Maslin was a resident, to contest…