Stout v. Cook

Howell, V. C.

The bill in this case is filed to obtain a construction of the will of John W. Stout, who died in 1861. He left a widow and seven children, among whom was his daughter Augusta, who married one Appleton and who died in December, 1907, without issue. At the time of her death the children of the testator who were living were Gideon L. Stout, one of the complainants, and Thomas Stout, a defendant. The four other children were dead, one of them, Jacob, having died without ever having had issue, but leaving the defendant, Audrey Osborn, whom he had adopted as his daughter in accordance…