Forster v. Bates

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

Pauline Bates, a resident of Pulaski County, Arkansas, died intestate on or about April 19, 1955, leaving surviving her, Fred Bates, her husband, and her brothers, M. P. Forster II, Henry Forster, her sisters, Katherine Elizabeth Mc-Cumpsey, Clara Forster Pape, and her nephews and nieces, who were children of Gertrude Pinkerton, a deceased sister1. At the time of her death, Pauline Bates was the owner of a certain eight acres, described in the complaint, located in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Title to this property had originally been held by her father, and…