In Re Wind's Estate

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding a family allowance to the surviving spouse, and a cross-appeal by her from a judgment denying an award in lieu of homestead.

August Wind died February 13, 1945, leaving estate in Pacific county. Saima Wind had obtained an interlocutory order of divorce from him January 10, 1945. Under a property settlement agreement, she was given furniture valued at five hundred dollars; postal savings certificates, twenty-five hundred dollars; savings account, five hundred dollars, and cash, eleven hundred dollars. On the day that the interlocutory order was…