In re Estate of Reed

DUFFY, Chancellor.

This is an appeal by an Executor, Wilmington Trust Company, from an order of the Register of Wills revoking letters testamentary and appointing an administrator pendente lite. Jurisdiction is vested in this Court by 12 Del.C. § 1571 which abolished the Orphans’ Court and transferred most of its jurisdiction here. See also Chancery Rule 184.

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Mary Emily Johnston Reed died testate on January 8, 1970. A writing dated March 11, 1963 was proved and allowed by the Register of Wills on January 20, 1970 as her will. Wilmington Trust Company was the named executor and letters…