Green v. Saulsbury
Orphan's Court of Delaware
Petition bob bulb to sechbe a widow’s bights in heb husband’s estate.—Eliza Green, widow of John Green, late of Kent County, deceased, presented to the court a petition representing that her late husband executed a last will and testament and afterward departed this life leaving the will unrevoked.
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Petition bob bulb to sechbe a widow’s bights in heb husband’s estate.—Eliza Green, widow of John Green, late of Kent County, deceased, presented to the court a petition representing that her late husband executed a last will and testament and afterward departed this life leaving the will unrevoked. That the same was admitted to probate and that it devised to petitioner a dwelling-house in the town of Dover, during her natural lifetime, and bequeathed to her an annuity of $200, payable in equal semi-annual installments, during her natural lifetime, in lieu of her dower rights, and that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
John Green, in and by his last will and testament dated the 5th day of August, A. D. 1876, devised a house and lot, in Dover, to his wife during her natural life, and also gave her annually the sum of $200, to be paid in equal semi-annual installments. He directed his executrix to rent the farm on which he lived, during the minority of his youngest daughter, and out of the proceeds therefrom to pay semiannually to his wife the sum of $100, which semi-annual payments were, during the minority of his- said daughter by the clear intendment' of his will, to constitute the said…
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