McComb v. Morford

This case comes to this court by writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court for the Third District. The litigation arose over the disposition of the one-fifth part of an estate which Almira Dunbar would have received if she had been alive at the time of her father’s death. Robert H. Baker, the father of Almira Dunbar, executed a will on March 4, 1902, and died May 24 following. He left a widow, Mary Baker, and three children, Joseph P. Baker, Christie Ann Critchfield and Leathe Scott, surviving him. Two daughters, Almira Dunbar and Kittie Samuels, predeceased him, both leaving children…