WAMBEKE v. HOPKIN

No. 3051

372 P.2d 470 (1962)

Hazel Hopkin WAMBEKE, Charlotte Hopkin Lewis and Neil Hopkin, Appellants (Objectors below), v. Eileen HOPKIN, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Leo N. Hopkin, Deceased, Appellees (Petitioners below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

June 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest J. Goppert of Goppert & Fitzstephens, Cody, for appellants.

Robert B. Bowman of Bowman & Bowman, Lovell, for appellees.

Before BLUME, C.J., and PARKER, HARNSBERGER and McINTYRE, JJ.


Mr. Justice McINTYRE delivered the opinion of the court.

This case presents the question as to whether a widow who owns the fee title to the family homestead by reason of survivorship in an estate by entireties shall also be entitled to receive from the estate of her husband one-half of the value of a homestead exemption, there being minor children of the deceased who are not children of the widow. It also presents the question as to whether a note payable to parties...

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