Sweeny v. Patton

The pertinent facts deducible from this record may be thus stated: Mary J. Patton, the appellee, hereafter sometimes called the complainant, is the aunt of William H. Sweeny, the appellant, hereafter called the defendant. When the defendant was a child four years of age and an orphan, his aunt and her husband brought him from Canada and took care of him during his childhood. After he grew up he went to the far West and stayed for about seventeen years. A few days prior to the death of complainant’s husband, in March, 1911, he returned to his foster parents. Upon the death of her husband she…