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The Six Widows Case, officially Re Estate of Choo Eng Choon, 12 Straits Settlements Law Reports 120, was a 1908 decision of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, affirmed by the appeal division of that court.
The Six Widows' Case addressed whether six women claiming to be widows of a deceased wealthy Chinese man were entitled to equal shares of his estate. The court applied Chinese customary law as used in Malaysia due to a lack of precedents from China.
Summary of Six Widow’s Case Issue: Whether all the women have equal status and entitled equal shares from the husband’s property. The Six Widows’ Case discuss on the application of Chinese customary law that is applied in Malaysia.
A merchant called Choo had died without leaving a will, and the case concerned the distribution of his estate. It arose because no less than six women came forward claiming to be his widow and therefore entitled to a share; hence its spectacular nick-name: the 'Six Widows Case'.1 The question
In Choo And Chee vs Neo Chan Neo and others 1908 (“The Six widows case”) the Court of Appeal upheld the ruling and held that all widows of a Chinese were entitled to share of the Estate of the deceased common husband under the statute.
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The Beatrice Six are Joseph White, Thomas Winslow, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Debra Shelden, James Dean and Kathy Gonzalez, who were falsely found guilty in 1989 of the 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska and served prison terms before being exonerated in 2009.
