Roberts's Estate

Lamorelle, P. J.,

The exceptions raise two questions: (1) Whether a widow’s election to take against her husband’s will may be delivered and recorded after her death; and (2) whether her exemption of $500 may be allowed at the audit in cash, where in her lifetime she made no formal written claim for any particular part of the estate?

The auditing judge allowed both claims.

The facts are few and simple: Andrew J. Roberts died April 30, 1922. He bequeathed and devised his estate unto Thomas R. Heller, in trust, to pay the income to his wife, Elizabeth D. Roberts, for life, and in event of such…