Jerry Tullis died in Cincinnati,leaving an estate worth $2,000,000. He had been a miserly, unsocial old man, and, so far as was generally known, a bachelor. He willed all his property to J. F. Floyd, his chum and neighbor. His three sisters threatened a contest, and Floyd quieted them by a compromise. Now, America Redmond, a mulatto woman noted in Cincinnati for her beauty, sues as the widow of Tullis, and presents what appears tobe conclusive proof of a relationship amounting in law to a marriage.