IN RE ESTATE OF WOLFNER

Gen. No. 48,893.

44 Ill. App.2d 77 (1963)

194 N.E.2d 1

In the Matter of the Estate of Violet Bidwill Wolfner, Deceased. Walter H.S. Wolfner, Appellant, v. Charles W. Bidwill, Jr., Individually and as Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Violet Bidwill Wolfner, Deceased, and William V. Bidwill, Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Second Division.

October 15, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sears, Streit & Dreyer, of Chicago (Barnabas F. Sears, John E. Dreyer and James N. Kosmond, of counsel), for appellant.

Thomas D. Nash, Jr. and Robert M. Ahern, of Chicago, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE FRIEND delivered the opinion of the court:

During their early married life, Charles W. Bidwill and his wife Violet adopted two sons, Charles W. Bidwill, Jr., in 1928, and William V. Bidwill in 1933. Charles W. Bidwill, Sr., died on April 19, 1947, and subsequently, on September 28, 1949, his widow married Walter H.S. Wolfner. She died on January 29, 1962, and by her last will and testament left the bulk of her estate to her two adopted sons. After the...

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