Peirce v. Giles

Defendants in error, children of Hiram H. Peirce, deceased, filed a petition in the Probate Court of Peoria County, claiming certain personal property belonged to the estate of deceased, but that the widow, Exira A. Peirce, who is the executrix of the will, bad failed to inventory it as property of the estate, but claimed it as her own. The petition sought to compel her to inventory said property as assets of the estate. The Probate Court heard the cause, and entered an order, from which an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court, where, on a hearing, the executrix was ordered to inventory…