Pugh

This action was brought by plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, for the purpose of obtaining a decree determining their ownership to all of the property of the estate of John A. G. Nelson, who died at Long Beach in Los Angeles County on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1909. Nelson left property, both real and personal, aggregating in value about the sum of ten thousand dollars. He died intestate and G. W. Bell, the husband of a niece of said deceased, was appointed administrator of the estate. Other parties were made defendants for the reason that under the laws of succession they would be heirs of the deceased. In their complaint the plaintiffs allege that in 1902 they were living at the city of Galesburg, Illinois, and that the deceased Nelson was living alone in a house owned by him in the city of Long Beach, California; that Nelson’s deceased wife and plaintiff Gilly Pugh were sisters; that at the time mentioned plaintiff W. H. Pugh had permanent employment with a railroad company, and that he owned some property at Galesburg; that Nelson being a widower and alone, proposed to plaintiffs that if they would come to California and allow him to live with them and furnish him…