SIMS v. ESTATE OF POWELL

No. 5-4710.

432 S.W.2d 838 (1968)

Elizabeth White SIMS, Appellant, v. ESTATE of Henry W. POWELL, Deceased, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 28, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. K. Grubbs, Sr., Eudora, and Samuel W. Barr, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.

Thomas L. Cashion, Eudora, for appellee.


JONES, Justice.

This is an appeal by Elizabeth Sims from a decree of the Chicot County Probate Court denying her petition for widow's allowance out of the estate of Henry W. Powell, deceased. For brevity and convenience the parties will be referred to by their given names.

Henry and Elizabeth were married in Little Rock in 1912. They lived together as husband and wife until 1926 when they separated. One child, Samuel, was born of this union and after the separation...

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