Hatcher v. Buford
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Saint Francis Circuit Court. Grant Green, Jr., Judge. “Where a.husband, just prior to his death, and in anticipation of death, gives his personalty away, for the-purpose of depriving his wife of her dower therein, she-is not bound thereby, any more than she would have been by a formal will making the same disposition of it.”' 23 Atl. 82; 14 Yt. 107; 39 Am.
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Appeal from Saint Francis Circuit Court. Grant Green, Jr., Judge. “Where a.husband, just prior to his death, and in anticipation of death, gives his personalty away, for the-purpose of depriving his wife of her dower therein, she-is not bound thereby, any more than she would have been by a formal will making the same disposition of it.”' 23 Atl. 82; 14 Yt. 107; 39 Am. Dec. 211, and note on p. 118 and cases cited ; lb. 505; 35 Mich. 415 ; 8 Atl. 744; 85 Ky. 20; 2 S. W. 545; Mansf. Dig. sec. 2586; 5 Ark. 608; Anderson’s Dec. p. 377, title, “Donatio”; 2 Brad. 432; 34 N. H. 166. 1. A widow, at…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
T. A. Hatcher, a prosperous merchant of Forrest City, Ark., died December 10, 1891. He had never had any children, but left a widow, M. F. Hatcher, the appellant. About two months prior to his death, he sold an interest in his store to Walter Buford, his nephew, taking in payment therefor notes of the said Walter amounting to. twenty-five hundred dollars. These notes Hatcher indorsed to his sister, Mrs. A. B. Buford, and mailed them to her on the 9th of October, 1891. About one month before his death, Hatcher directed his agent to buy four thousand dollars of bank stock, and, about ten days…
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