Matlock v. McCracken

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This is an appeal by Ethel Matlock, formerly Ethel McCracken, from a decree of the Boone County Chancery Court in favor of Troy Mc-Cracken in connection with the title to farm lands in Boone County.

When Tom McCracken died intestate in 1940, he left surviving him ten children by a former marriage and a widow and three children by his second marriage. The appellee, Troy McCracken, is the oldest of the ten children by the first marriage, and the appellant, Ethel Matlock, is the former wife and surviving widow of Troy’s brother, Ray McCracken, who died intestate in 1966.

The…