Butler v. Hyland

Temple, C.

— Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of nonsuit, and from an order refusing a new trial.

*579Plaintiff’s father, as she avers, died June 5, 1858, leaving, as heirs, plaintiff, aged eight years, and her brother, aged about fourteen. Her mother had previously died. Her father was the .owner, at the time of his death, of the lot in controversy. Just before her father’s death, her aunt, who was a widow with three children, the present defendants, came to live with her father on the lot in suit, and plaintiff became at once a member of her aunt’s family, and lived with her until her own…