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Important Law Suit

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A very interesting law suit has juát been heard and determina in our circuit court. About the year 1873, Mr. and Mrs. Pyron V. Fellows, who then lived in Sharon, took from the superintendent of the poor of this county a tenmonth-old child of unknovvn parentage, and gave it the name Mabol Alena Fellows. When the child was about nine years of age the foster parents did all they thought necessary to mako her thoir heir at law. Mrs. Fellows in her lifetime had a one-sixth interest in what was known as the Iludson farm now owned by Leonard Herman. This place waa burdened with a Ufe estáte to Clarissa Hudson, the widow and mother who died in 1893. Tho heirs aside from Mrs. Fellows sold to Mr. Herman, but the court holda that in the adoption papers is found the contract which gives Mabel the interest of Mrs. Fellows and must be regarded. A. F. & F. M. Froeman were for the complainant, Mabel, anp A. J. Waters and Prof. B. M. Thompson wete for defendant

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register