Estate of Hamm v. Jenkins

Clayton P. Hamm, who had never married, died January 21, 1973, at the age of seventy-four. His surviving heirs and the appellants were his two sisters, Irene Hamm aged seventy-one years, and Phyllis Hamm aged sixty-eight years, who also were never married; a sister, Florence G. Stoker, aged seventy-two years, of Cleveland, Ohio; and three adult children of a deceased brother, Gilbert, and namely, Patricia Biever, Jeanne Eckels and Karen Rahn, all living outside the state and married.

In 1951, Clayton P. Hamm broke a hip and subsequently retired. July 19, 1954, Hamm suffered a stroke. The…