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FONTENO v. ESTATE OF T. MATTHEWS

No. 83-88.

651 S.W.2d 466 (1983)

279 Ark. 411

Erma Jean FONTENO, Appellant, v. The ESTATE OF Booker T. MATTHEWS and Mary Bell James Matthews, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

June 6, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Macom, Moorhead, Green & Henry by J.W. Green, Jr., Stuttgart, for appellant.

Eilbott, Smith, Eilbott & Humphries by Zachary Taylor, Pine Bluff, for Mary Bell James Matthews.

HAYS, Justice.

Booker Matthews died intestate in 1975. Several persons asserted an interest in the estate, including Mary Bell Matthews, as widow, asking to be declared sole distributee and claiming all statutory allowances to which she would be entitled. The last petition was filed by Nelson Thomas, claiming to be an heir, denying that petitioners Dorothy Friends and Erma Fonteno were legal heirs, or that the widow, Mary Bell Matthews, was entitled to more than a...

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