Burdick v. Pope

OPINION

Mary Emeline and Frank W. Pope were married on October 22, 1955. On January 25, 1956, William F. Skidmore conveyed a parcel of real property located adjacent to U.S. Highway 50 in Ormsby County [now Carson City], Nevada, to “Mary E. Johnson Pope, a married woman,” with a recitation in the deed that it was to be “her sole and separate property.”

Mary Emeline Pope died on January 3, 1964. Under the terms of her will, she bequeathed the sum of $2,500.00 to her husband, Frank W. Pope. The residue of the estate was left to her daughter, Theo Field Burdick, the appellant. Frank Pope died in…