Lamb v. . Lamb

The trial court, correctly construing the will of W. B. Lamb, held that the plaintiff, his widow, was not thereby put to her election with respect to the lands in controversy, and that her right of survivorship therein was not defeated. In this we concur.

Any attempt to list, by exhaustive rule, the conditions which give rise to the duty or legal necessity of election must be left to the text-writer or encyclopedist. Confining ourselves to the facts of this case and the situation they present, which is not wholly novel in type, we repeat some principles which we believe to be applicable and…