Ross v. Alleghany Theological Seminary

Solution of the difficulties here involved, demands a construction of the statute of 1873 relating to the. election of a surviving husband to take the benefits of his wife’s will, rather than his distributive share, as well as the application of another statute of said Code, having to do with the right of an eleemosynary foreign corporation to take more than one fourth of an estate under the conditions limited. Facts controlling the controversy are: Frances E. Eoss and her husband, Ferdinand C. Eoss, were.living together October 6, 1895, in Onawa, on the property involved herejn, amounting to…