In Re Workman's Estate

This is an appeal by H. J. Carruthers, executor of the estate of Harper Workman, deceased, from two orders of the circuit court of Multnomah county, probate department. The first order denied a petition filed by Carruthers January 27,1936, and the second denied a petition filed April 22, 1936. The second petition in all of its material parts was a duplicate of the first. The following is a summary of the second petition: After Workman’s death and the admission of his will to probate, the appellant, who was nominated in the will as executor, applied to the circuit court for an order appointing…