Schoonover v. Schoonover

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

In 1885 Samuel Leeper, sr., a widower, was the owner of a tract of land on which he lived. In that year his daughter, Mary Schoonover (with her husband), began living with him, and after he died, in September, 1894, she continued in the occupancy'of the land until her own death, in May, 1909, after which her heirs held possession. In November, 1909, an action was brought for partition, in which a controversy was tried'between Phoebe Patton, a daughter of Samuel Leeper, sr., who claimed an interest in the property as his heir, and Mary…