Steen v. Kirkpatrick
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of, first district, Chickasaw county. Hon. Henry L. Muldrow, Chancellor. Steen and others, appellants, propounded for probate in the court below a claim against the estate of Mrs. M. M. Steen, deceased, which was resisted by Kirkpatrick and others, appellees, heirs of the decedent. From a decree denying probate of the claim the proponents appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the chancery court of, first district, Chickasaw county. Hon. Henry L. Muldrow, Chancellor. Steen and others, appellants, propounded for probate in the court below a claim against the estate of Mrs. M. M. Steen, deceased, which was resisted by Kirkpatrick and others, appellees, heirs of the decedent. From a decree denying probate of the claim the proponents appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The chancellor sustained the exception on the ideas: 1. That W. M. Steen was not a competent witness, being debarred by Code 1892, § 1740, and 2.…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
Appellants rely on the following as facts: T. J. Steen, a widower, and Mrs. M. M. Robinson, a widow, each with a family of children, agreed to be married. After this agreement, *68and on the day before they actually were married, they made an independent oral agreement that the survivor should hold the share of the estate of the deceased spouse coming to him or her by law for life only, and that at the death of the survivor it should revert to the estate of the first decedent. Accordingly the husband being the first to die, the wife wanted her lawful share of his estate in money, so that she…
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