Wallace v. First National Bank

The question here involved is whether the wife’s *586entry of a homestead right on her husband’s home property, followed by the husband’s death, can thereafter be asserted against another heir at law of her husband where the widow has been allowed her $2,000 widow’s allowance under the law of descent and distribution, and the estate otherwise is solvent.

The case arose when the administrator of the husband’s estate filed its petition for the sale of the home property. It was disclosed by the petition that the personal property was of the value of $2,053.62, and the claims against the estate…