Grueneberg v. Briese

This appeal presents the single question whether the attorney for a party to litigation is subject to examination under sec. 326.12, Stats., as an agent of such party. At this stage it may be well briefly to detail the facts giving rise to the litigation. Martha Briese, widow and sole heir of decedent, petitioned for administration of this estate. .The petition was granted and Mrs. Briese appointed adminis-tratrix, entering her duties in March, 1940. Geo. B. Swan was retained as her attorney. Thereafter, Arthur D. Gruene-berg and other relatives of decedent’s first wife, who died in 1935,…