IN RE ESTATE OF FRANKE

No. 54811.

133 Ill. App.2d 160 (1971)

272 N.E.2d 795

In re ESTATE OF CARRIE FRANKE, Deceased — EDWARD LEVINE, Successor Executor of the Last Will and Testament of CARRIE FRANKE, Deceased, Petitioner-Appellee, v. EDWIN SAND, SR. et al., Executors of the Will of Emma Ahlers, Deceased, Defendants-Appellants — (EARL HAAKE et al., Defendants-Appellees — FRED FRANKE et al., Defendants.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District.

May 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll, Paxton & Blomquist, of Chicago, (Glenn G. Paxton and J. Herbert Landon, of counsel,) for appellants.

Thompson & Thompson, of Chicago, (Paul E. Thompson and Percival E. Thompson, of counsel,) for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE BURMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Supplemental proceedings were instituted to construe the joint Will of the decedent, Carrie Franke, and of her predeceased husband, William F. Franke, and to determine the parties entitled to take shares in the residue of the decedent's estate bequeathed to four residuary legatees who also predeceased her. The trial judge heard the...

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