ESTATE OF WILLIAMS


266 Wis. 403 (1954)

ESTATE OF WILLIAMS: FIRST NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY OF RACINE, Special Administrator, Appellant, vs. GULBANKIAN, Executrix, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

April 6, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Benson, Butchart, Haley & Benson of Racine, and oral argument by Donald A. Butchart.

For the respondent there was a brief by Heft, Brown, Stewart & Coates, and for the residuary legatee by Beck & DuRocher, and oral argument by Carroll R. Heft, Thorwald P. Beck, and Kenneth L. Greenquist, all of Racine.


GEHL, J.

Sec. 253.11, Stats., provides:

"Any county judge may act as county judge of any county upon the request of the county judge thereof, and while so acting he shall have the same powers as if elected for the county in which he is acting. . . ."

That a county judge has authority to act in any county of the state is there declared. It must be conceded that Judge DAVIS had not been requested by Judge SIMPSON to act in the matter of the estate of...

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