Weeks
Weeks v. Link
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Henshaw, J.
The complaint is in ejectment, alleging ownership and possession in plaintiff upon the second day of January, 1899, and the unlawful ouster and withholding of possession by defendants. The defendants pleaded, and the-court found, that Eva G. Weeks in her lifetime was the owner of the property in dispute; that Eva G. Weeks was the wife of O. D. Weeks, plaintiff herein, and daughter of defendants; that defendants were put in possession of the property by their daughter, resided upon it and made it their home with their daughter until her death in October, 1897, and that since her death they had continued to occupy the premises as their dwelling-place and home; that their daughter died seised in fee of the property, and by her last will and testament, which was admitted to probate, devised the same to her father, the defendant, Sylvester Link; that by the decree of distribution in the estate of Eva G. Weeks, deceased, the land and premises were distributed to the defendant, Sylvester Link, according to the terms and provisions of the will of the daughter. Thereafter, and on the sixteenth day of June, 1898, the defendants executed and delivered to the plaintiff a deed of conveyance of…