Ainscow v. Alexander

Layton, Chief Justice,

delivering opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a decree in distribution entered by the Orphans’ Court for New Castle County by which the residue of the personal estate of Allen H. Ainscow, deceased, was directed to be paid to the administrator of the estate of his putative widow against the claim of his next of kin, the controversy growing out of the disputed validity of the marriage of the decedent with Jennie M. Alexander, who had obtained a divorce from her husband in Reno, Nevada.

The material facts are these: Allen H. Ainscow, a childless widower, lived for…