Estate of Beverson

The petitioner, styling herself Tilly Beverson, claims that she was the wife and is the widow of deceased, that her son Orrin is his child, and that they are entitled to a family allowance.

The petitioner, Delia or Tilly as familiarly called, was married in 1862, at the age of fifteen years, in New York, to one Platt. Three or four months after the marriage Platt *36 left her, and in 1864 he came to California. She remained in New York until September, 1865, when she also came to this State. Platt was at the steamer when she landed in San Francisco, and she saw him then and occasionally afterwards during the two months next after her arrival. In January, 1866, she became acquainted with Beverson, who was keeping a grocery and liquor store in this city; she at the time conducted the business of dress-making. About two years after her arrival here, they became intimate, under a mutual promise of marriage; but their relations were conducted in such a manner that none knew of them but themselves, and they were known as unmarried people. He visited her and took her to places of amusement. These relations continued until June, 1868, when Beverson left for Europe. In November, 1868, the…