In Re Baker's Estate

We shall refer to the petitioner (appellant) as the plaintiff and to the three respondents as the defendants. The decree which is under attack was entered by the circuit court of Multnomah county, probate department, July 7, 1936. Briefly stated, it (a) recites a stipulation of the parties authorizing the court to determine the value of plaintiff’s curtesy rights, exempt property rights and homestead rights in an apartment house property belonging to the estate of his deceased .wife, Bertha I. Baker, upon the assumption that the property was worth $9,500; (b) dismissed a proceeding instituted…