Brooks v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““As a matter of fact, if she could by filing her election to take under the will in Kansas, take it here, and by not so filing in Massachusetts take under it in Massachusetts the same reasoning would allow her to take under the will in one state and under the law in another. Such inconsistent position may not be taken. See 11 Am.Jur. p. 349, where the rule is stated as follows: ‘ The acceptance by the party entitled to make the election of the provisions of a will or an election to take under the will in the state of the decedent’s domicil is binding everywhere.’ ” (See to the same effect In re Randolph’s Estate, 175 Kan. 685 [ 266 P.2d 315 ].)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 141 Cal. App. 2d 416 - Patmore v. MacKecknie