In Re Laughlin's Estate

This is an appeal from an order denying the petition of a widow to have a homestead set aside for her and also certain furniture as exempt from execution.

The petitioner, Anna Maude Laughlin, and the decedent were married in May, 1940. They lived in an apartment house which decedent managed, but did not own, in the city of Portland. Decedent owned two houses in the city — one at 2028 N. E. Multnomah street and the other at 1534 S. E. 25th street. The Multnomah street house was rented furnished. The 25th street house — the one in controversy — was also rented at $50 a month to Mrs. Dora Bruce…