BOYLE, P.J., August 27, 1951.
The question presented is whether a widow is estopped, under the equitable doctrine of election, from acquiring title to real property as surviving tenant by the entireties when she elects, unwittingly, to take under the will of her husband, who devised the same property to her for life under the mistaken belief that he was the sole owner.
The undisputed facts are as follows: Sometime prior to 1928 George M. Laughlin, Jr., husband...
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