In Re Estate of Heywood

This was an application by Agnes Maud Heywood, the adopted daughter of deceased, for the setting aside to her of a probate homestead out of the separate property of deceased. The appellant was seventeen years and eleven months old at the time Franklin Heywood died, and at the time of her application was past the age of eighteen years. The court’s findings were such in other respects as to entitle her to the homestead, but finding also that at the time of the application she had attained and passed her majority, the application was denied. ■

The single question thus presented is whether a minor…