In Re Estate of Bichl

This is an appeal from an order of dismissal, entered at the close of petitioner’s evidence, in a citation proceeding brought pursuant to the Probate Act.

Petitioner, Frank T. Platka, Jr., testified that he was the attorney for Bertha Bichl and her deceased husband, Thomas Bichl, since 1929; that in 1943, he had purchased, with Thomas Bichl, a twenty-one apartment building in Chicago; that Thomas Bichl died in 1946; that in 1950, the building needed repairs so Mrs. Bichl sold her share to him for $31,852; that the Bichls’ original share had cost them $26,000; that at the time of this purchase…