Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green's Pepper. Lines were drawn then & there between widow and sister, never good friends, for a legal fight that promises to be historic. To his little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry (pop. 2,040) came a bigger estate case than Surrogate Harry E. Owen had ever thought of in his 20 years on the bench. As administrator he appointed Essex County's youthful District Attorney, bulky, bespectacled Thomas W. McDonald...
...Widow Green's lawyers, headed by one-time U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, objected to the probate on general grounds that the 1908 document was not a last will & testament. Sister Hetty's counsel moved to dismiss the objections, alleging Mrs. Green was no interested party in the probate because of a prenuptial agreement in which she waived dower rights for $1,500 per month for life...
Uberrima Fides. Widow Green's lawyers answered that the prenuptial agreement is not valid because 1) it was not properly executed; 2) under Texas law such a pact is against public policy of the State; 3) circumstances which attended the signing render it invalid. Under the doctrine of uberrima fides (utmost good faith) common law presumes that there is a relationship of confidence between the parties entering into such an agreement and there must be the fullest disclosure by the pact's proponent of its nature and legal effect. Widow Green told Surrogate Owen at an initial probate...
With the filing of these objections it became more & more necessary to determine Colonel Green's domicile. It might be Texas, Massachusetts, New York or Florida. If it is Texas, Surrogate Owen has already ruled, Widow Green will be judged an interested party in the proceedings...
Married. Mrs. Clara Louise Saltmarsh Westinghouse, widow of Board Chairman Henry Herman Westinghouse of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. who invented the single-action steam engine and whose Brother George invented the air brake; and John Franklin Miller, 78, Westinghouse vice chairman; at Bradenton...