McMichael v. Proctor

The heirs challenge the final account filed by the petitioner in one respect only. They assert that the payment of the present cash value of the widow’s interest in the land sold to make assets should not be paid to her; that she wrongfully slew her husband, petitioner’s intestate; that she thereby forfeited her interest in her husband’s estate; and that the sum which represents the present cash value of her dower interest should be paid to those who would have inherited the same if she had predeceased plaintiff’s intestate.

Thus the appeals of the petitioner and the widow present one primary…