State v. Horan

Mr. Horan, a bachelor forty-six years old, has practiced law in Friendship, Wisconsin, for over twenty years. He also has served as postmaster at Friendship since 1941 excepting for a period of approximately three and one-half years during which he was in military service as a special agent with the Intelligence Corps of the army. He enjoys a good reputation in his community and was a close friend and adviser of Wellington B. Barnes, a widower, who died on October 11, 1959, at the age of eighty-seven leaving an estate of approximately $265,000. Upon Barnes’ death, the only heir at law was…