Hooker v. Peterson

The substance of the controversy is this: Complainant claims that Peter Hooker, the intestate of W. H. Peterson, the father of said W. H. and of the other defendants of that name, and of the married women defendants, became the husband of complainant’s mother, after the death of the mother of the defendants; that complainant and his younger brother, children of a former marriage of the mother, became members of Peter Hooker’s family; that Peter Hooker owned no land at that time; that in 1893 Peter Hooker contemplated the purchase of the tract of land which is the chief subject of controversy…