In re the Estate of Baker

Joseph A. Cox, S.

The decedent married Lewis S. Baker in 1923. Her husband died in 1936. In 1941 the decedent applied to the Veterans’ Administration for pension benefits as the widow of a World War I veteran. In connection with such application the decedent acknowledged that she had contracted a purported civil marriage with one Leshley on June 15, 1934 but the decedent represented that such relationship had been entered into upon the mistaken belief that Baker was dead and, upon learning that this was not the fact, the decedent, in 1937, had separated from Leshley and had terminated their…