Lucas v. Lacy

Haet, J.,

(after stating the facts). The widow filed her renunciation of the will within the time prescribed by statute, and the correctness of the judgment of the circuit court depends upon the construction to be given to the statute as applied to the facts of the case at bar.

See. 3540 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest reads as follows: “If a widow, for whom provision has been made by will, elect to be endowed of the lands and personal property of which her husband died seized, she shall convey, by deed o,f release and quitclaim, to the heirs of such estate the land so to her devised, and…