Chilson v. Rogers

Citations

• 91 Kan. 426
• 137 P. 936
• 1914 Kan. LEXIS 46

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Will — Written Consent to by Husband-Irrevocable. A written consent that his wife might devise or bequeath away from him more than one-half of her property was freely and fairly executed by the husband in strict compliance with the statute authorizing such consent after reading the will and learning the disposition which his wife intended to make of her property. Later, and before ■ the ■ death of his wife, he gave her written notice that he had. revoked the consent previously given, and after her death he claimed that he was entitled to one-half of the property of which she died possessed. Held, that the husband did not have the right to revoke the consent so given and was not entitled to a share of his wife’s property.</p>