Wells v. . Wells

ClaRK, 0. J.

This is a petition to rehear this case, decided 156 N. C., 246. W. D. Wells, deceased, left surviving a'widow, who, it is admitted, is 'entitled to one-half the personal estate, and his mother, who claims to be entitled to the other half. Revisal, 132 (3), provides: “If there be no child nor legal representatives of a deceased child, then half the estate shall be allotted to the widow, and the residue be distributed to every of the next of kin of the intestate who are in equal degree and to- those who legally represent them.”

The intestate left no children, and besides his mother…