Friedman v. Andrews

The question for decision is whether, on the agreed facts in this case, Wilhelmina Solby, surviving wife of Irving Solby, late of Boston, waived the provisions of his will.

G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 191, § 15, provides that “The surviving . . . wife of a deceased person . . . within six months after the probate of the will of such deceased, may file in the registry of probate a writing signed . . . by her, waiving any provisions that may have been made in it . . . for her, or claiming such portion of the estate of the deceased as . . . she would have taken if the deceased had died intestate, and . .…