Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity & Illinois Psi Omega Ass'n v. Schwarz

This case involves an attempted appeal from denial of prohate to a document offered as the will of R. Leo Schwarz, deceased. Appellants are two groups of persons named as beneficiaries under the proposed will. Appellees are the niece and nephew of the decedent who are his only heirs, and who were expressly disinherited in the proposed will.

The alignment of parties in the trial court was not so logical. James Schwarz, decedent’s nephew, had been appointed Administrator to Collect, and it was on his petition that the document was offered for admission to probate. Upon the appearance of the…