Re Faling Estate

The Circuit Court, probate department, allowed handsome fees to the defenders of the will declared by this court to be invalid, but, on jurisdictional grounds denied the petition for attorneys’ fees of the attorneys of the legatees, who successfully contested the fraudulent will and successfully propounded the valid will of testatrix.

The County Court has the exclusive jurisdiction, in the first instance, to take proof of wills, to grant and revoke letters testamentary of administration, and to direct and control the conduct and settlement of the accounts of executors and administrators. The…