In re Estate of Graves

This is an appeal by the executors of the will of Henry Graves, deceased, from a judgment of the county court of Cook county fixing the amount of inheritance tax payable by them.

Henry Graves died testate October 3, 1907, leaving as his only heir a grand-niece, Louise DeKoven Bowen, who was not mentioned in his will. She threatened to contest the validity of the will, and thereupon all the residuary legatees agreed among themselves that two of their number, Henry Graves and John C. Neely, who were named in the will as executors, should pay to her $50,000 out of the assets of the estate to…