In Re Estate of Todd

This case originated in the Probate Court of Crawford County and is now before this court on an appeal on questions of law from an order of the Common Pleas Court, wherein that court dismissed an appeal on questions of law and fact taken from the Probate Court.

From the evidence submitted at the hearing in the Common Pleas Court on the motion to dismiss the appeal, it appears that, at the trial before the Probate Court upon a charge of concealing or embezzling assets from an estate, the official reporter of the Common Pleas Court was employed by counsel for the estate—the appellee herein—to…