Whitworth v. Hager

This case is before us on petition to rehear. It presented two law questions arising out of this state of facts: In the year 1903, J. T. Brent, then a widower with children, intermarried with Mrs. R. J. Crump, a widow with two small children, Norman and Roberta Crump, by her first marriage; after her marriage to Brent, the mother and her two children became members of Brent’s household and so continued until 1905, when she died, and thereafter her children continued to be members of Brent’s household until November, 1908, when he sent them to Texas to live with their aunt. They remained in…