Updegraph v. Gerling

The appellant herein, Margaret E. Updegraph, is the widow of Waldo B. Updegraph, deceased; appeals from an order determining heirship, by which the trial court determined that the bulk of the decedent’s estate was his separate property and defined the boundaries of the “home property” in which she had been devised a life estate; and also appeals from an order terminating the payment of a widow’s allowance.

With two exceptions, which were covered by stipulation, the trial court found that each of the items in the decedent’s estate was his separate property; that three of these items were owned…