Allen v. Harnett
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court — Hon. W. W. Edwards, Judge. (1) The election of the defendant, Mary E. Harnett, was made out and filed in accordance with the provisions of 1 Revised Statutes, 1879, secs. 2190 -2194, and she is entitled to one-half of her deceased husband’s estate. 1 Revised Statutes, 1879, secs. 2190 -2194. (2) The law, at the time this election was made, did not require it to be recorded, or any minute or record entry of its filing to be made in the…
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Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court — Hon. W. W. Edwards, Judge. (1) The election of the defendant, Mary E. Harnett, was made out and filed in accordance with the provisions of 1 Revised Statutes, 1879, secs. 2190 -2194, and she is entitled to one-half of her deceased husband’s estate. 1 Revised Statutes, 1879, secs. 2190 -2194. (2) The law, at the time this election was made, did not require it to be recorded, or any minute or record entry of its filing to be made in the probate court. 1 Revised Statutes, 1879, sec. 2194; Franklin Co. v. State ex rel., 3 So. Rep. (3) The mailing of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBubgess, J.
William A. Harnett, husband of defendant, died in St. Charles county, Missouri, on the seventh day of July, 1887, intestate, without lineal decendants. On the twentieth of July, 1887, letters of administration were granted by the probate court of St. Charles county to the defendant on the estate of her deceased husband.
The husband and wife had lived together as such for a period of nearly fifty years, and during that time had accumulated some property, consisting chiefly of three hundred and sixty acres of land in the immediate vicinity of their residence, and a few lots in the village of…
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