Thayer v. Rock County Savings & Trust Co.

Sec. 310.25, Stats., provides:

“Whenever a firm or corporation of any kind is named as administrator or executor of an estate, he or she who is nearest of kin and who receives any interest in the estate, and if there be no bequest of any kind, then the party receiving the largest amount or interest from the estate, shall name the attorney who shall represent the estate in all proceedings of any kind or nature, unless good cause be shown before the court why this should not be done. . . .”

The appellant widow contends that under this statute she, as nearest of kin, can compel the corporate…