Kins v. Ginzky
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Eamsey county against defendants as executors of the last will and testament of Emma A. Ford, deceased, to obtain the decree of the court that plaintiff was the owner of a certain city lot belonging to testator and that the legatees named in the will had no interest therein. The case was tried before Orr, J., who made findings and ordered judgment in favor of plaintiff. From an order denying their motion for a new trial, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Orville C. Ford and his wife were living in the little town of New Centerville, Wisconsin, in 1879. Mr. Ford kept a store. The Fords were childless. They became attached to Cynthia Hampton, an eight year old girl of a neighbor, a laborer having a large family, and offered to take *328this girl into their home. It was done. The girl, this plaintiff, was treated by the Fords as if she had been their own child in the way of home, clothing, schooling and attention, and in return assisted in such household duties as a child of that age might do. This continued for four or five years, when the Fords…
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