Marietta v. Faulkner

At fifteen or sixteen years of age appellant, complainant in the court below, was an orphan. Mrs. Faulkner was an invalid without children. She and her husband took Alva, as the witnesses refer to appellant, into their home where she remained for fifteen years and until her marriage to Marietta. Alva helped about the home, and the evidence leaves no room for doubt that she was a great eomlort to her foster parents. For the pui’poses of this cause it will be conceded that the common understanding between appellant and her foster parents was that appellant would inherit their pi-opei-ty at the…