Tracy v. Kelley

Suit to recover the possession of land. No question is made upon the complaint. The first paragraph of answer was a general denial, and the second was as follows:

That on the 28th day of September, 1826, the defendant was married in Warren county, in the State of Ohio, to Thomas J. Kelley, who died in 1873; that after said marriage, her brother, John R. Ritchey, by his will, bequeathed to her eight hundred and thirty-three dollars, for the purpose of purchasing her a home, in her own right, and taking the deed in her name; that after the death of her brother, his executor, William Ritchey, in…