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IN RE ALLEN'S ESTATE

No. 49820.

100 N.W.2d 10 (1959)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Marie Wolfinger ALLEN, Deceased. Katherine Phillips ALTMAN and Charlotte Phillips Hirchak, Appellants, v. Andrew B. ALLEN and A. L. Wensel, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 15, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cross, Hamill & Selby, Newton, and Abramson & Myers, Des Moines, for appellants.

Leo J. Lucier, Des Moines, for appellees.

OLIVER, Justice.

The question in this case is whether appellee Andrew B. Allen was the common-law husband of Marie Wolfinger Allen who died in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, February 27, 1958. Upon Allen's petition, as her widower, he was appointed administrator of her estate and appellee A. L. Wensel was appointed attorney. March 6, 1958, Mrs. Katherine Phillips Altman and Mrs. Charlotte Phillips Hirchak, nieces and heirs...

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