Martin v. Shaen

Plaintiff, as executor of the will and estate of Martha J. Shaen, who died October 1,1943, at the age of eighty years, instituted an action against John Shaen, surviving husband of the testatrix, who was twenty-four years her husband’s senior, to recover from the defendant the possession of certain real property alleged to have been the sole and separate property of Mrs. Shaen at the time of her death. The defense to the action was that the property was defendant’s sole and separate property by virtue of a deed from the decedent. Trial of the cause to the court without a jury resulted in…