Pate v. Bushong
Indiana Supreme Court
From Henry Circuit Court; W. O. Barnard, Judge. Suit by Abraham Pate and others against Peter P. Bushong. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal. Transferred from Appellate Court, under §1337u Burns 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtMonks, J.
— Jackson Bushong died testate in Henry county, Indiana, in 1898, leaving his widow, Lydia Bushong, his son Peter P. Bushong (the appellee), and his five grandchildren, Minerva A. Pate, Phoebe T. Thompson, Hannah N. Addison, Cora C. Warrington, and Lila L. Ellison, children of a deceased daughter of the testator. Said will was legally probated. After the death of said widow, appellants brought this action against appellee for partition of the lands devised to the widow, upon the theory that she took the same in fee simple under said will.
The will, omitting the codicil which is not necessary…
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