Estate of Blackburn

This appeal is from an order, the effect of which was to determine that Irene Blackburn and Lulu B. Spurling had forfeited their right to the legacies provided in the will of Simon Houston Blackburn to be bequeathed . to them, by having filed objections to the appointment of one Grace B. Killough as one of the executrices of said will.

Irene Blackburn who had been named in the will as one of the executrices filed a petition for the probate of the will and for the issuance to herself of letters testamentary. In the will the testator appointed Grace B. Killough as the other executrix. On December 9, 1929, the petition was duly heard and an order was entered admitting the said will to probate and appointing Irene Blackburn executrix: On the same day, after the making of the order appointing the said Irene Blackburn executrix, Grace B. Killough filed a petition praying that she be appointed a joint executrix of the estate of said decedent. On the twentieth day of December, 1929, Lulu B. Spurling and Irene Blackburn filed objections in the superior court to the appointment of Grace B. Killough as executrix. These objections were overruled and an order was made appointing Grace B-…