Burke v. Burke

HENDRY, Judge.

This is an appeal by Lydia Burke, putative wife and widow of Ernest Burke, de*945ceased, for a review of orders of the Circuit Court, Probate Division, denying her petition to set aside homestead and granting the petition of appellee, Samuel Burke, to revoke letters of administration previously granted to appellant in proceedings in re the estate of Ernest Burke, deceased.

The proceedings in the probate court were begun by the appellant upon the assumption that she was the common law wife of the deceased, Ernest Burke, since they had cohabited together from 1965 to the date of his…