Ross Ex Rel. Howerton v. Burton

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

Susan Howerton was a maiden lady between 74 and 75 years of age at the time of the occurrences involved in this litigation. -She inherited from her father, who died in 1901, some mountain land as well as some cash .and other personal property, and it was supplemented by additional property that she inherited from or which was , devised to her by her bachelor brother, whose death occurred some two or three years before the filing of this action. She and her brother, who was but a few years younger than she, lived together on the old Howerton…