In Re the Estate of Singleton
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the First Judicial District Court, Douglas County; G. JS. Mad1-, Judge. In the Matter of the Estate of Samuel Singleton, deceased. From a judgment in favor of Agnes Scossa, executrix, construing a deed of a testamentary writing, the heirs of Rebecca Singleton, widow of deceased, appeal. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from the First Judicial District Court, Douglas County; G. JS. Mad1-, Judge. In the Matter of the Estate of Samuel Singleton, deceased. From a judgment in favor of Agnes Scossa, executrix, construing a deed of a testamentary writing, the heirs of Rebecca Singleton, widow of deceased, appeal. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. Samuel Singleton, on the 17th day of March, A. D. 1888, made a deed to his wife of all his property, real and personal, wheresoever found. A copy of this deed is set out in the objections. It was duly acknowledged and recorded and has been on record…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Belknap, J.:
Ten years before his death, Samuel Singleton executed a writing in the form of a deed purporting to convey all his real and personal property to his wife. Afterwards he made a will bequeathing his property to his -wife for life, and upon her death to his sister, Agnes Scossa, the executrix. Singleton died in November, 1898. His wife died a week later. Upon the settlement of the final report of the executrix, a contention arose as to the construction to be given to the deed. The executrix claimed that she was entitled to the property, for the reason that the writing is…
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