Estate of Lamb

Citations

• 6 Coffey 432

Syllabus

<p>Will—Community Property.—A Widow Need not Elect, as between her community interest and her interest under the husband’s will; she may take both.</p> <p>Will—Community Property.—A General Devise of All the Property a testator may die possessed of, without any specific property being-named, applies to but his moiety of the community property, if a, married man.</p> <p>Trust—Jurisdiction to Determine Validity on Partial Distribution.. Upon the ordinary notice in a partial distribution proceeding, the court has jurisdiction to determine upon the validity of a trust clause,, in a will, in favor of minors absent from the state.</p> <p>Infant—Conclusiveness of Judgment—An Infant can be Bound without having his day in court, and is as much bound as a person of full age by a decree in equity, the same grounds being available to both for disputing it.</p> <p>Guardian Ad Litem—Probate Proceeding.—The Code Sections providing for the appointment of guardians ad litem are not applicable-to probate proceedings.</p> <p>Trust.—An Express Trust Should Define its subject, purpose and beneficiary, and also its duration in regard to-time.</p>