Hoover's Estate

Snyder, P. J.,

The right of Mary A. Hoover Parley, widow of Thomas Hoover, to participate in the distribution of the fund in this estate is disputed by Mrs. Pearl Hoover Hamilton, a daughter of the decedent. This daughter contends that, prior to the death of her husband, Mary A. Hoover Parley for one year and upwards had wilfully and maliciously deserted her husband, and is, therefore, not entitled to share in this estate by virtue of the Act of May 3, 1915, P. L. 234.

The testimony shows that Thomas Hoover and Mary MeGinley, now Mary A. Hoover Parley, were married on May 22, 1912, that they…