Patterson v. Patterson

The plaintiff is widow of William W. Patterson,. wlio died intestate August 14, 1S79, leaving surviv*177ing two adult children, of whom the defendant John K. Patterson is one, and three infant children, two of whom are children of the plaintiff also. At his decease the intestate was occupying a farm as his homestead, and the widow with her two children have since remained in the dwelling-house upon this farm. She claims a homestead right in the dwelling-house and forty acres of land, and her case is that while with her children she was in possession of this homestead, in the summer of 1881, John…