Huffman v. Sharer

The plaintiff in error is a very old man, having reached the age of ninety-one years at the time of the hearing of this cause. His wife died November 15, 1899, at an advanced age. They lived together as husband and wife for more than fifty years, but no children were ever born to them. In 1862 the defendant in error, then about fourteen months of age, whose name or parentage the record does not disclose, was taken into their family as a member thereof. She was treated in all respects as their child and lived in the family as a daughter until she reached her eighteenth year, when she was…