In re Estate of Messenger

The opinion of the court was delivered by The main issue in this case is the effect of a wife's lack of
consent to her husband's will which totally disinherits her if
they both die "at or about the same time as the result of a
common disaster." Asa Lee Messenger (known as Lee) and his wife, Juanita, both
died as the result of an automobile accident on July 27, 1968.
They had been married about seven years.