Umberger v. Westmoreland

Ed. P. McPaddin, Justice.

In this suit the husband is seeking to claim as his own certain property that was in his wife’s possession at the time of her death.

W. R. Umberger 1 and Maggie Umberger were married in Tennessee in 1919, and from 1923 lived in Cherry Valley in Cross County, Arkansas. They had no children. Mrs. Umberger died August 28, 1947, and by her will gave her husband (a) the use of the family residence for his lifetime, and (b) one-seventh interest in her estate. The other six-sevenths interest went in equal shares to Mrs. Mattie Lou Westmoreland (a niece whom the Umbergers had…