Chance v. Chance

Mrs. Ola Chance made application to the court of ordinary of Burke County for a year’s support out of the estate of M. W. Chance, deceased; and the appraisers made their return, setting apart to her a year’s support. Brooks Chance, Mrs. Susie Greiner, and Mrs. Ellis Oliver, as creditors of said estate, filed a caveat to the application and the return of the appraisers, in which they contended that the applicant was not the widow of M. W. Chance; and that if she was his widow she was not entitled to the *890year’s support, in preference to caveators as creditors, as she had already had one year’s…