Reese v. Reese

Sognier, Judge.

Mary O’Hara Reese filed an application for year’s support as the widow of Charles Wayne Reese in the probate court of Richmond County. The administrator for the estate, Charles Douglas Reese, filed a caveat to the return of the appraisers setting aside a year’s support, asserting that the decedent and Mary O’Hara Reese had divorced approximately two years prior to the decedent’s death and thus she was not the decedent’s legal widow. The probate court, after a hearing on the issue, granted the application for year’s support, whereupon appeal was taken by the administrator to the…