People ex rel. Merrill v. Gilchrist

H. T. Kellogg, J.:

In the year 1909 Angie M. Booth, through the death of her husband, Henry P. Booth, came into the title and possession of an estate valued at $10,000,000. Her husband had been actively engaged in the steamship business. He was president of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, known as the “ Ward Line,” and of the Atlantic Gulf and West Indies Steamship Lines. The stocks and bonds of these and other steamship companies constituted one-half of the estate to which his wife became entitled. Angie M. Booth was seventy years of age at the time of her husband’s death. She…