In re the Estate of Cooke

Wingate, S.

Julia Anne Cooke died on March 9, 1928, leaving a will by which she appointed Everett Stanton as sole executor without bond. This instrument was admitted to probate on March twenty-ninth and the executor named duly qualified in that capacity. For some time prior to her death the decedent had employed Joseph A. Reilly as her attorney in such matters as required legal attention, and he had. drawn the will in question. Reilly had also acted as attorney for various close friends and relatives of the decedent and was more or less intimately acquainted with all of the beneficiaries named…