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ESTATE OF BARRETT

Gen. No. 53,945.

124 Ill. App.2d 9 (1970)

260 N.E.2d 107

Estate of Peter T. Barrett, Deceased. Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, a National Banking Association, Petitioner-Appellant Cross-Appellee, v. The First National Bank of Chicago, a National Banking Association, Petitioner-Appellee, and Myrtle Cornish Barrett, Heir and Legatee-Appellee Cross-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District.

April 17, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Witwer, Moran & Burlage, of Chicago (Samuel W. Witwer, John F. Atkinson and Edward J. FitzSimons, of counsel), for Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, appellant-cross-appellee.

Winston, Strawn, Smith & Patterson, of Chicago (George B. Christensen and John Alden Powers, of counsel), for First National Bank of Chicago, petitioner-appellee.

Law offices of Sidney C. Kleinman, of Chicago (Sidney C. Kleinman and F. William McCarty, of counsel), for cross-appellant, heir and legatee-appellee.

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

This appeal is from orders entered in the Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Probate Division, admitting a 1962 will to probate, appointing The First National Bank of Chicago as executor, and denying probate to a 1948 will and a 1965 codicil thereto.

The last will of Peter T. Barrett, executed February 2, 1962, which stated that it revoked all previous wills, was admitted to probate...

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