Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1913 — WAS DECLARED LEGALLY DEAD [ARTICLE]

WAS DECLARED LEGALLY DEAD

Woman Who Lost Legacy Under Absentee Statute Finally Establishes Her Rights. Boston, Mass—Miss Mabel F. Allen of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has proven herself alive after the Suffolk county probate court, the state supreme court and the United States Supreme court had declared her dead, received $2.60C as her share of the property left by her grandfather, Jonathan Merry. When the will of Mr. Merry wal filed several years ago. Judge Grant of the probate court was informed that Miss Allen had been missing for fourteen years, and, under the absentee statute, he declared her dead. The question of Miss Allen’s being declared legally dead was taken to the state supreme court and the United States Supreme court on the constitutionality of the absentee clause. In 1911 Miss Allen received the first information that a legacy awaited her while reading in a newspaper that the United States Supreme court had decided that she was dead. She appeared in the probate court and established her identity.