Carlson v. Carlson

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

Boy E. Carlson, Sr., died of cancer February 27, 1945. He was the apparent owner of a half-ton Chevrolet truck that is the subject-matter of this appeal.

Boy E. Carlson, Jr., was appointed administrator of his father’s estate. In his inventory the truck was listed as an asset. On March 17th the probate court directed that all personal property be sold. The decedent’s widow (a second wife and not Boy Junior’s mother) petitioned for exclusion of the truck from the court’s order of sale, asserting that her husband had given it to her. There were circumstances…