Garn v. Garn

The question presented by the record in this case, is as to the right of the appellee to revoke and have rescinded an election, executed, acknowledged and filed in the clerk’s office, under and by which she declared her acceptance of the provisions of the will of her deceased husband.

The husband died January 29, 1890; the will was probated February 3, 1890, and the election to take under the will was filed February 10, 1890. The petition alleges the desire of the widow to take under the law, and to decline the provisions of the will. On the 25th day of July, 1890, she executed an election to…