Chanowsky v. Friedman

SPEER, Justice.

In 1936, Minnie Friedman obtained judgment against Jake Chanowsky for $4,,~ 302.52, with interest thereon from its date. The judgment was, at all times involved here, kept alive and effective.

Jake Chanowsky and Mary Chanowsky had been husband and wife for forty or more years when the judgment against the husband was obtained. Mary Oianowsky died on February 13, 1945; she left a will, by the terms of which she devised her property to her husband during his lifetime, with remainder to their son, Adolph Chanowsky; she named her son as independent executor of her estate. The will…