Wehnes v. Marsh
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appead from the district court for Jefferson county; Leander M. Pemberton, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, J.
Plaintiffs ask specific performance of a contract for a two-sevenths interest in the estate of William Marsh, deceased, and assign error in the trial court’s sustaining of a demurrer to their petition.
The petition shows that in 1870 Dora Wehnes, mother of the plaintiffs, then small children, having in her possession $420 of the $700 or $800, proceeds of the sale of the personal property of the estate of her deceased husband (which estate also, included a 160-acre farm), married William Marsh father of defendants Marsh and a widower, and came to live with 'him on his homestead; that defendant…
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