Clark Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

John J. Clark died in 1901, intestate, leaving to survive him a widow and two minor children. Five years later, the former presented a petition to the orphans’ court, averring these facts, and also that she had since remarried, that no administration had been raised on decedent’s estate, that all his debts had been paid, that he left no property except a small piece of real estate, and prayed the court, under the third section of the Act of June 4,1883, P. L. 74, to appoint appraisers to value and set it apart to her on account of her widow’s exemption,…