Wadsworth v. Courtney

HALLEY, Vice Chief Justice.

Parties will be referred to as in the trial court.

Plaintiff and defendant are brother and sister. Their father, Samuel Hugh Wads-worth, owned 160 acres of land in Dewey County, Oklahoma. After his death in 1951, there was a will contest in his estate. That case was finally determined after an appeal to this Court in the case of In the Matter of the Estate of Wadsworth, Okl., 273 P.2d 997, in which the plaintiff received the entire 160 acres, subject to a life estate in his mother. That case became final in September, 1954.

At the time of the death of Samuel Hugh…