Townson v. Townson

In this case the principal question is whether a widow, after having filed a declaration of her decision to take under her husband’s will, may later change her mind and elect to renounce the will. The trial court permitted the appellee to alter her position, and by this appeal the executor asks us to reverse that decision.

The appellee’s husband, J. H. Townson, died on February 12, 1951, and his will was admitted to probate. On February 15 Mrs. Townson filed with the probate clerk an instrument by which she declared that, with full knowledge of her right to a larger share in the estate, she…