Estate of Rees

This is an appeal by Llewellyn Rees from an order appointing Title Insurance and Trust Company the general administrator of the estate of Lewis Rees, deceased. The determination of the appeal is involved in a somewhat complex chronology of the events leading up to the order from which the appeal is taken. On September 3, 1919, Lewis Rees executed to Mary L. Rees, his wife, a deed conveying certain of his real property; on September 17, 1919, he executed to her an instrument of like character conveying other, and apparently the remainder, of his real property; on September 19, 1919, the deed of September 17th was placed of record; on March 2, 1920, Lewis Bees died intestate; on June 17, 1920, Llewellyn Bees and John H. Bees, sons of decedent, filed their petition for special letters of administration in the matter of -their father’s estate and on the same day the petition was granted; on June 24, 1920, the special administrators commenced an action against Mary L. Bees to cancel the deed of September 17, 1919, and summons was served on the defendant on the day the complaint was filed; on June 25, 1920, Mary L. Bees placed of record the deed of September 3, 1919; on June 29, 1920,…