Brown, Adm'r v. Miles

James A. Craft, as the widower of Minnie D. Craft, deceased, filed in the probate department of the circuit court of Marion county his petition to have set apart to him the home property occupied by him and decedent at the time of her death as his homestead, pursuant to the provisions of § 19-602, OCLA. The petition was resisted by the executor and the beneficiaries of the last will and testament of decedent. The trial court denied and dismissed the petition. Petitioner appealed to this court. After this appeal was perfected, and on June 21, 1950, James A. Craft died, and Lawrence N. Brown,…