In Re Estate of Sueppel

Clarence J. Sueppel died intestate leaving surviving a spouse, Mabel J. Sueppel, and two children as Ms sole heirs-at-law. He was seized of a ninety-four-acre tract of land upon which he and his wife resided at the time of his death. Application was made to the probate court by the surviving spouse to set off to her as a homestead free of decedent’s debts, a forty-acre tract therein. His two heirs-at-law joined therein and also asked that their interest therein be likewise declared to be free of decedent’s debts. Over objections of claimants against the estate the trial court granted such…