In re the Estate of Chandler

Wingate, S.

It is proverbial that hard cases make bad law. The learned referee to whom the issues in this proceeding were submitted for evaluation obviously deemed that a validation of the objections of the surviving spouse of this decedent would be inequitable, which may, in part at least, account for his attainment of a result with which this court is regretfully compelled to disagree.

As demonstrated by the record, the parties intermarried in or about the year 1910. Both were colored. The decedent was more or less continuously employed as a domestic or day worker for the entire period from…