In re Bell's Estate
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Salt Lake Comity; W. C. Hall, Judge. Judicial proceedings in tbe settlement of tbe estate of James Bell, deceased. From a decree granting to Ellen R. Quinn Bell, widow of deceased, a third in value of all tbe real estate of tbe estate, Franldin Bell, as executor, appeals. APPELLANT'S POINTS. Section 2731 of tbe Revised Statutes of Utab 1898, provides: That a married man may will away all of bis estate witb tbe consent of his wife in writing.
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Appeal from District Court, Salt Lake Comity; W. C. Hall, Judge. Judicial proceedings in tbe settlement of tbe estate of James Bell, deceased. From a decree granting to Ellen R. Quinn Bell, widow of deceased, a third in value of all tbe real estate of tbe estate, Franldin Bell, as executor, appeals. APPELLANT'S POINTS. Section 2731 of tbe Revised Statutes of Utab 1898, provides: That a married man may will away all of bis estate witb tbe consent of his wife in writing. Tbe relinquishment executed by Ellen R. Quinn Bell, respondent, on -the 28th of May, 1900, was such a writing under section…
1Opinion of the CourtStraup, J.
Appellant, the executor of the. estate of James Bell, deceased, prosecutes this appeal from, a judgment of the court below decreeing to respondent, as the widow of said deceased, one-third in value of all the real property of said deceased possessed by him at the time of his death. Appellant, as executor of said estate, filed his final account and petition for distribution with the court below, asking that •the real estate of said deceased be distributed to his children in accordance with his last will and testament, wherein all his property, real, personal, and mixed, was bequeathed and…
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- Boyle v. Ogden CityUtah Supreme Court · 1902
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