Conaway v. Daly

The opinion of the court was delivered by ■

Bodine, J.

Annie M. Conaway brought ejectment for a tract of land at the corner of Kentucky and Baltic avenues in Atlantic City. The trial judge directed a verdict for the plaintiff.

Mrs. Conaway claims an undivided one-fourth interest in the premises, asserting that she is a granddaughter of Emma L. Schafer, who took title May 26th, 1888. Mrs. Conaway was born June 4th, 1889, at Atlantic City, her mother, a daughter of Mrs. Schafer, died shortly thereafter- and many years before Mrs. Schafer’s death.

Mrs. Schafer died intestate November 14th, 1897,…