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IN RE ESTATE OF WAKEFIELD

Gen. Nos. 50,332 and 50,333.

77 Ill. App.2d 128 (1966)

221 N.E.2d 788

In the Matter of the Estate of Lawrence Wakefield, Deceased. People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Constance Stineberg Wakefield, Appellant. In the Matter of the Estate of Lawrence Stineberg Wakefield, Deceased. Constance Stineberg Wakefield, Petitioner-Below Appellant, v. James L. O'Keefe, Public Administrator of Cook County, etc. et al., Respondents-Below Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Second Division.

November 29, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis P. Miller and J.H. Silver, of Chicago, for appellant.

Daniel P. Ward, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Edward J. Hladis, Chief of Civil Division and Donald J. Veverka, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellee, State of Illinois.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BRYANT delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a consolidated appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Probate Division, which denied appellant's petition for letters of administration, and which held the appellant in contempt of court for perjury and attempted fraud, and assessed costs and attorney's fees against her. The only issue which we need consider on this appeal is the claim of the appellant that she was wrongfully...

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