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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Estate of EDWARD FLAHERTY, Deceased.
    [No. 2,798;
    decided February 11, 1884.]
    Administrator—Nomination by Nonresident Widow.—The second marriage of a woman who has" a husband living is void, and she becomes his widow upon his death. Hence she has a right to nominate an administrator of his estate, although she is a nonresident and is cohabiting with and bearing the name of the second husband.
    Wright & Cormac, for the public administrator.
    C. W. Bryant, for Kimball.
    J. E. Jarrett, for the widow.
    George N. Williams, for Patrick Flaherty.
    A. H. Loughborough, for absent heirs.