In re the Estate of Strickland

Wingate, S.

The situation disclosed in the present proceeding is the reverse of the familiar one in which a decedent has involved his estate in difficulties by an attempt to act as the artificer of his own will. In such a case the complications are customarily caused by a failure to secure legal guidance. The present indicates that perhaps there has been a superfluity thereof.

Stated in chronological order, the documents by which this decedent attempted to place her temporal affairs in order were, first, the presently propounded will, dated December 22, 1928; second, an inter vivos trust…