Fleming v. Fleming
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF IOWA. Error to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Iowa, which affirmed a judgment for the plaintiff, in her suit to recover her statutory share, as widow, of property left by her deceased husband, and claimed by the defendants as his surviving partners.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Iowa. The suit was begun in Polk County District Court by Anna B. Fleming, widow of Charles Fleming, against three brothers of her husband, one of whom had become his administrator, to secure her dower rights under the state statute in the share of her husband in the property of a partnership of the four brothers, in the business of soliciting and placing life insurance. The defendants’ claim was that Charles lost all interest in the partnership upon his death, that by virtue of three contracts the property passed to the survivors, and the…
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