Estate of Nelson

This is an appeal from a decree of partial distribution. The appellants as heirs of a former deceased husband of Annie D. Robertson Nelson, deceased, claim they are entitled to participate in the distribution of said estate under subdivision 8 of section 1386 of the Civil Code.

Jonathan Robertson was employed as a farm hand by Mr. Dale, the father of said deceased, at $30 per month. Mr. Robertson and Annie Dale were married June 11, 1891. There were no children born as the issue of this marriage. For a period of time they leased upon shares the Dale ranch in Humboldt County. Their income from this farm was small. Robertson had no other source of income or means so far as the record discloses. Shortly before Annie Dale’s marriage to Mr. Robertson she inherited about $3,000 from the estate of an old gentleman by the name of Grinnell whom she had nursed during his last illness. After her marriage to Mr. Robertson she was given $1,000 by her father. In 1912 she was given by her father $10,000 additional upon the sale of his 640-acre tract of timber land. At the death of her father in 1916 she inherited the further sum of about $9,000. In 1897 she purchased the valuable Walker ranch…