Estate of Nelson Stine

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

Jemima Atkins Stine, claiming tó be the widow of William Nelson Stine, who died in the year, 1928, petitioned the court for a rule upon Charles H. Stine, (decedent’s son by a former wife) the administrator of his estate, to show cause why she should not be given her right of exemption and that the same might be appraised to her as provided by law. Charles H. Stine answered the petition by alleging that the petitioner had never been the lawful wife of the decedent'.

It is admitted that the petitioner came to live with the decedent in the year 1903 and they were not then…