Wambeke v. Hopkin

This case presents the question as to whether a widow who owns the fee title to the family homestead by reason of sur-vivorship in an estate by entireties shall also be entitled to receive from the estate of her husband one-half of the value of a homestead exemption, there being minor children of the deceased who are not children of the widow. It also presents the question as to whether a note payable to parties who are husband and wife shall be presumed to be the property of the widow alone upon the death of her husband.

Leo N. Hopkin, a resident of Big Horn County, Wyoming, died intestate…