ESTATE OF BUDNEY


2 Wis.2d 389 (1957)

ESTATE OF BUDNEY: HENDRICKSON, Appellant, vs. BUDNEY, Administrator, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

December 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Benson, Butchart, Haley & Benson of Racine, and oral argument by Donald A. Butchart.

For the respondent there was a brief and oral argument by William J. H. Evans of Racine.


MARTIN, C. J.

It is established by the evidence that the source of the money found in the home was William Budney's earnings. He testified that the decedent had no estate of her own when he married her, that she had not received any inheritance, that he did not think she had received any divorce settlements from her previous husbands, that she never worked during their thirty-three years of married life. These facts are not denied by the petitioner; in fact, they...

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