Doe v. Roe

Lore, C. J.:

From the case stated it appears that Robert Roberts, a resident and citizen of the State of Delaware, died in December, 1901, intestate, seized in fee of certain real estate situated in the City of Wilmington in the State of Delaware.

That he left no wife or children; that his next of kin were the four children of a then deceased sister, Maria Kershaw, viz., *399Tom Kershaw, Joseph Kershaw and Nanny Kershaw, all at the time of the death of the intestate being residents of England and subjects of Great Britain and Ireland, and Robert R. Kershaw, the defendant, at that time an alien…