McCarty v. McCarty

Francis A. McCarty died in May, 1899, leaving Emma Y. McCarty, his widow, and John McCarty, William E. McCarty, Caroline McCarty, Laura E. McCarty and Frances McCarty, his children and heirs-at-law. He left a last will and testament, by which he devised to his wife, Emma Y. McCarty, an estate in all his property, real and personal, during her life while she remained his widow, and provided that if she should re-marry the estate should be divided according to the statutes of descent; that if she died his widow the estate was then to be divided into the number of equal shares provided by the…