Matthews v. Jones

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Permanent easements of flowage over certain lands in Mississippi were acquired by condemnation by the United States and the compensation was paid into court. The land was owned by Parker Allen, Jr., who died intestate June 10, 1935, leaving no descendants. The appellants, his collateral relatives, intervened to claim the money as his heirs. They pleaded that the land was also claimed by appellee as the grantee in a deed made to him by Ellen Allen as the widow and sole heir of Parker Allen, Jr., but that she was not his widow because the marriage between them was a…