Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1904 — The Pruett Estate. [ARTICLE]

The Pruett Estate.

The late Abraham Pruett left quite a nice little estate, consisting of his residence property in Rensselaer and aso a farm of 160 >mres of good land iu Kosciusco county The lnnicj is not wholly unincumbered, but there is probably enough due on his former farm in Jordan, and other property to leave al the real estate clear. He left no children, and died intestate that is left no will. Buth does leave a widow and al-o some brothers and sisters ’ Being himself quite old, of course his parents are dead. His real-estate was all wholly in his own name. This combinat on of circumstances leaves a legal situation that does not happen often enough that people general! are well informed as io whom the property will descend.

The law iu this state, however, is that when a man dies and leaves a widow, under the circumstances above set forth, the widow will inherit the whole estate. And if it was the wife that died, the husband would inherit her estate. If the decedent left paients they w inherit one fourth of the property Therefore Mrs. Pruett will be- j come tho sole owner of a'l the' property. Though no will was made, yet the subject was recently discussed by Mr. and Mrs. Pruett, and their conclusion was to leave the bulk of the property equally to Mrs A -I. McFarland, whom they raised but never legally adopted, and to Joseph Branson, a .nephew, whom they also raised. And no doubt this will be the u timate division of the property.