Braum's Estate

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

Gertrude L. Braum, a minor, married August Braum, the decedent, and after living with him three months separated from him. He died sometime thereafter and the question of her right to participate in his estate was before us twice. We held in Braum’s Estate, 86 Pa. Superior Ct. 245, that, although neither of the parties could have maintained an action for divorce, she was not entitled to claim the widow’s ex emption because the family relation bad ceased to exist, but in Braum’s Estate, 88 Pa. Superior Ct. 109, we held that she was entitled to participate in the…