Estate of Piatt

Appeal from an order admitting a will to probate and granting letters testamentary to respondent L. J. Norton, as executor of the will of Mona M. Skinner Piatt. Appellant and petitioner, J. H. Piatt, husband of the decedent, had filed objections to the granting of letters testamentary to Norton and had petitioned that letters of administration with the will annexed be granted to him.

The question involved is clear cut, and, so far as this record is concerned, purely one of law. It may be stated as follows: “In a case where a party makes a will and later marries and dies leaving a surviving…