In Re Mahaffay's Estate

Appellants respectfully, but seriously, insist that this section 6975, Revised Codes of 1921, is in violation of section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in that it denies to a certain class of persons within the state of Montana the equal protection of the law, as within the holdings in Duncan v. Missouri, 152 U.S. 377, 38 L.Ed. 458,14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 570 [see, also, Rose's U.S. Notes]; Gulf,Colorado Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. Ellis, 165 U.S. 150,41 L.Ed. 666, 17 Sup. Ct. Rep. 255; Atchison, Topeka etc. R.R. Co. v.Matthews, 174 U.S. 96, 43 L.Ed. 909, 19 Sup. Ct.…