Whitehead v. Kirk

Citations

• 106 Miss. 706
• 64 So. 658

Syllabus

<p>1. Executobs and Ajdmintstbatobs. Allowance to wife. Year’s support. Discretion of court. Code 1906, section 2052.</p> <p>The widow is entitled to a year’s support under Code 1906, section 2052 where her husband died leaving a will devising all of his property to his sisters to the exclusion of his wife.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>In such case the amount of the allowance for the year’s support of the widow is in the sound discretion of the chancellor, and in determining the amount, he can properly take into account the manner of living to which the widow, during the life of her husband, had been accustomed, her station in life and the demands which such station imposed upon her.</p> <p>3. Same.</p> <p>Under the facts in the case an allowance of twelve hundred dollars for the year’s support of the widow was not excessive.</p>