Hawkins v. Elston

The questions here involved grow out of transactions among members of the same family. John W. Elston, under whom the defendants in error claim by inheritance, and Canby Hawkins, the plaintiff in error, who was sole defendant in the trial court, were half brothers, having the same mother: John W. Wood was their step-father, and participated in the raising of both. After his wife’s death he made his home, first, with one and then another of his step-children, with whom the most intimate family relations existed. Other allegations of the complaint are that Elston, in 1894, being the owner of…