Landau v. Estate of Drisch

Richard E. Landau brings this appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Lake County that denied his petition to restate heirship and for other relief. In said petition he alleged that he was the natural son of Josephine A. Drisch, deceased, or, in the alternative, that Josephine Drisch had entered into a contract to adopt him and, that in either event, he was her sole heir.

Josephine Drisch died on November 16, 1966, and on November 22 a petition was filed in Lake County by Florence P. Witt wherein she alleged that she was a sister of the decedent and her sole heir. Letters of…