In re the Probate of the Will of Drubin

Pierson B. Hildreth, S.

In this probate proceeding the question presented is whether all necessary parties have been cited and made parties to the proceeding. Proponent, who is decedent’s wife and an executor named in the will, seeks to have the will admitted to probate without citing or otherwise obtaining jurisdiction over two other persons designated and appointed by the testator in his will to act as guardian of his infant daughter and also to act as executrix in the event the wife “ shall predecease me or shall fail to qualify, die, resign, or cease to act for any reason as Executrix.”

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