In re Beason's Estate
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Second District; Hon. N. J. Harris, Judge. In tbe matter of the estate of Charles M. Beason, deceased. Petition by Hattie P. Beason, as surviving wife, for an allowance pending the estate’s administration. Judgment granting allowance, and the administrator appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtStraup, C. J.
The petitioner, Hattie P. Beason, as the widow of Charles M. Beason, deceased, was granted out of the estate a family allowance of $50 a month for a year, or the sum of $600, pending the administration of the estate. The administrator appeals. He contends: (1) That the petitioner and the deceased for several years prior to his death had not lived together, and that he had not contributed to her support; and (2) that the petitioner, by lapse of time, had forfeited her right to an allowance.
As to the first, the court found that the petitioner “did not live separate and apart from the deceased…
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