State v. West

On June 29,1921, D. J. West, executor, and Helen E. Granger, legatee, of the estate of R. S. Granger, filed a complaint in the Carroll County Probate Court against the State of Arkansas, pursuant to § 10235, C. & M. Digest, alleging that R. S. Granger had died testate, leaving his estate to his widow, except a money legacy to his executor. It was alleged that Granger had died without issue, and that petitioner, Helen E. Granger, his widow, took one-half of the estate as dower and the other half under the will, and that the inheritance tax attorney for the State was asserting that the entire…