In re the Estate of Robertson

Taylor, S.

A number of petitions were presented to this court asking that the administratrix be required to account and that certain assignments of the petitioners’ distributive shares obtained by and made to Winifred Slausenberg at the time she was actively engaged in obtaining renunciations to permit the appointment of herself as administratrix of this estate be set aside and declared void upon the ground they were obtained by fraud. The administratrix admitted the assignments but denied the fraud.

It appears that there was an intimate relationship between the decedent and the administratrix,…