Bowman's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

Sallie Bowman, the widow of Gerson L. Bowman, elected to take against the will of her deceased husband, and claimed a widow’s exemption of $500 and one-third of his estate. The court below found that she had wilfully and maliciously deserted her husband for a period of one year prior to his death, and, by so doing, had forfeited her right to participate in his estate, under sec* tion 6 of the Act of June 7,1917, P. L. 429. The conclusion that she intended wilfully and maliciously to desert could have been predicated on two grounds; the court below, however,…