Wakefield v. O'Keefe

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE McNAMARA

delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner filed a petition in the probate division of the circuit court of Cook County seeking to amend a proof of heirship and asking that she be declared the surviving spouse of the decedent, Lawrence Wakefield. The petition was heard by the trial court without a jury, and resulted in an order finding that petitioner had failed to establish that she was decedent’s surviving spouse and dismissing the petition.

On February 19, 1964, decedent died intestate in Cook County. On February 21, 1964, a petition for letters of…