Wilkes v. Cornelius

This appeal comes here from the circuit court of the county of Washington, but how the case got into that court is not shown by the record. We are informed by verbal statements of counsel that the case was appealed to the circuit court from a judgment of the county court for Washington county.

The record shows that on the second day of July, 1888, the will of Annie Wilkes was admitted to probate by said county court, and that letters testamentary upon her estate were ordered to be issued to the respondent; that on the thirtieth day of July, 1888, the appellant presented to the respondent an…