Smith v. First Natl. Bk. of Hartford City, Exr.

Patrick B. Smith died testate on August 15,1931, and The First National Bank of Hartford City, Indiana, who was named as executor in decedent’s will, qualified as such on August 19, 1931, and so acted until its resignation September 9, 1933.

On August 31, 1931, a suit was filed in the Blackford Circuit Court to contest decedent’s will and on change of venue the cause was sent to the Grant Circuit Court where the said will was declared invalid on the ground that the testator was a person of unsound mind.

Thereafter the executor, the appellee here, filed a partial report in the decedent’s estate…