CAHILL v. EBERLY

No. 5020.

38 F.2d 539 (1930)

CAHILL et al. v. EBERLY.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided February 4, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph B. Fleharty, of Washington, D. C., and E. L. Stinchcomb, of Baltimore, Md., for appellants.

G. W. Offutt, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.


MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This appeal raises the question (a) whether a widow was obliged under the circumstances to file a statutory renunciation in order to take under the law rather than under the will of her deceased husband, and (b) if so, whether her declarations and acts subsequent to the probating of the will amounted in law to such a renunciation. The controlling facts in the case are conceded.

Samuel G. Eberly, a resident of the District of Columbia...

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