Wormington v. Wormington

Plaintiff filed her application in the probate court of Barry county, Missouri, under date of September 10, 1929, for her statutory allow anees as the widow of Richmond Wormington, deceased, such claims being, respectively for $400 as absoute property and $2000 in lieu of a year’s provisions. The claims were contested by defendant administrator, who filed an answer to the claim in the probate court, and upon due trial in that court plaintiff’s right to such allowances was denied. In due time she took an appeal to the circuit court of the county and, thereafter, the cause was transferred by…