Daniels v. Benedict
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit by a divorced wife to recover from the devisees under the will of her former husband one-half of the property of which he died seised. Under the statutes of Colorado, one-half of the real and personal property of a deceased husband and father descends to his widow, and the other half to his surviving children. The husband may not take away from his wife her share of his estate by a will, nor can she deprive herself of her right to claim this share by consenting before the death of her husband to a will which bequeaths it elsewhere. Mills’ Ann. St. Colo.…
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