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IN RE ESTATE OF O'STEEN

No. S-370.

285 So.2d 443 (1973)

In re ESTATE OF J.B. O'STEEN, Deceased. Mattie N. O'STEEN, Widow of J.B. O'Steen, Deceased, Appellant, v. Isabel O. McLEOD et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

November 20, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert McClure, Jr., and Doak S. Campbell, III, McClure & Wigginton, Tallahassee, and Edwin B. Browning, Jr., Davis, Browning & Hardee, Madison, for appellant.

John R. Weed, Perry, for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

This fight for the material assets of decedent is between his "second" wife and his six grown children. Appellant-widow and co-executrix, Mattie N. O'Steen, and decedent (who was eighty years old) were married one year and 10 months prior to his death. The widow timely filed her election to take dower in lieu of the provisions of decedent's last will and testament. The decedent's children contested appellant's election to take dower on the grounds that...

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