In Re Esterly's Estate

This is a controversy over the right to letters of administration of the estate of Stephen Esterly, who died intestate in France in November, 1918, while a member of the American Expeditionary Force. He held a certificate of war risk insurance on his life, issued by the United States, in which his mother, Anna Laura Esterly, was named beneficiary. He left as heirs and next of kin his wife, Bessie C. Esterly, his father, Peter Stephen Esterly, and his mother. Subsequently his father and mother died, but the estate of neither has been administered nor put in the course of probate. At the time…