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IN RE ESTATE OF HALLETT

295 A.2d 755 (1972)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Henry W. HALLETT, Deceased.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

August 24, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Reese Hitchens, of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, for Wilmington Trust Co., administrator c. t. a. of the estate of Henry W. Hallett.

Richard E. Poole, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for Virginia Hallett Stevens, sole next of kin of the decedent Henry W. Hallett.

Clement C. Wood, of Allmond & Wood, Wilmington, for Mary Jean King and Ray A. Meitzler, named beneficiaries.

Thomas Herlihy, Jr., of Herlihy & Herlihy, and Morris Cohen, of Cohen & Cohen, Wilmington, for Edward Q. Reinhart, a named beneficiary.

Richard S. McCann, Newark, for Ellis E. Ford, a named beneficiary.

MARVEL, Vice Chancellor:

Virginia Hallett Stevens appeals from a ruling of the Register of Wills which admitted to probate the purported will of her brother Henry W. Hallett. As the sister of the decedent and his sole next of kin such appellant would be entitled to succeed to her brother's entire estate under the intestate laws of Delaware should his purported will be held invalid. Accordingly, she seeks in this Court a reversal...

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