In Re Estate of Duro

John Heber Duro died April 10, 1941. A document purporting to be his will was filed and admitted to probate on May 16, 1941. Evelyn Irene Duro (now Evelyn Irene Addison, claimant and appellant herein) was the same day appointed and qualified as executrix and gave notice of her appointment. She was decedent’s sister and sole beneficiary named in said document. Chapter 301, Acts of the Forty-ninth General Assembly, doing away with fourth-class claims and reducing the period of administration to six months, had then been enacted but did not become effective until the following July 4th.

On May 8,…