In re the Estate Blum

Vandermeulen, S.

Nettie Blum, who is now Nettie Blum Dueltgen, married John R. Blum, the decedent, on February 13, 1942, at Kenmore, N. Y. His first wife died several years before his second marriage. Nettie had been previously married to one Harold A. Stevenson. She left their home in Buffalo on June 15, 1939, and thereafter lived separate from him. About two years later, on May 27,1941, he sued her for divorce, on the ground of willful desertion, in the Court of Common Pleas in Armstrong County, State of Pennsylvania. That court granted a decree of divorce which stated that both parties…