Estate of Kretschmer

The record in this appeal is as spare as possible for bare existence. It consists of a skeleton, the clerk’s transcript, which is composed of six slender structures: an account and petition for instructions, objections and a counter - petition, order settling account, judgment determining estate property and interest in estate, decedent’s will, and notice of appeal. Each party has added some flesh to "the skeleton in the form of statements of fact in briefs. We are disposed to regard these statements as stipulations in so far as they may be helpful to the adversary of the one making them, and…