In re Estate of Stocking

This is an appeal, from an order of the circuit court of Winnebago county appointing an administrator de bonis non in the estate of Duane C. Stocking, deceased. There is no dispute about the facts. The decedent died intestate November 4, 1924, at Rockford, Illinois, leaving surviving him Nettie Y. Stocking, his widow, and five children his only heirs-at-law. On November 17, 1924, the widow filed in the probate court of that county her petition for appointment as administratrix of decedent’s estate, and on the same day she was appointed by the court, and qualified.. She continued to act as…