ESTATE OF GREENWALD


17 Wis.2d 533 (1962)

ESTATE OF GREENWALD: FIRST WISCONSIN TRUST COMPANY, Executor-Trustee, Plaintiff, v. DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION, Defendant. [Two appeals.]

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

October 30, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff there was a brief and oral argument by George P. Ettenheim, attorney, and Ralph M. Hoyt of counsel, both of Milwaukee.

For the defendant the cause was argued by E. Weston Wood, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs were John W. Reynolds, attorney general, and Harold H. Persons, assistant attorney general.


BROWN, C. J.

Testatrix Edith C. Greenwald died August 30, 1953, leaving an estate consisting entirely of personal property, primarily intangible personalty, appraised at $1,536,364.44. In September, 1953, a document which later was admitted in the county court as her will was offered for probate. Objections to the admission of the document to probate as her will were filed in October, 1953, by her nephew and subsequently by others.

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