Boggan v. Boggan

McMurray, Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action in which the petitioner, a widow, having sued for wrongful death of her husband, recovered a net sum of $99,756. She contends in this action that three of the children of the deceased, all sui juris, are each claiming a one-quarter interest in the proceeds and demanding that she distribute such shares to them with interest; that there is an actual controversy between the parties regarding the laws of descent and distribution and the law of wills, inasmuch as her husband by will made her his sole beneficiary. She prayed that she be entitled…