State v. Longmire

1 The States Attorney General, the City of Pryors Mayor, and Mayes Countys Treasurer, who appear with the State, and others, as petitioners herein, have been designated in accord with House Bill 883 of the Twenty-Fourth Legislature, Tit. 62, chapter 3, S.L. 1953, for the governmental units they serve, as trustees of the residue of the W.A. Graham estate in Probate Cause No. 3661 of the County Court of Mayes County, Oklahoma, wherein said decedents will was admitted to probate; and his estate, valued at $3,500,000.00, has been administered by Baylis L. Graham, Earl Ward and C.D. Mitchell, the duly appointed co-administrators with the will annexed of said estate. In this original action they instituted by filing their petition therefor, petitioners seek a Writ of Prohibition to prevent the respondent County Judge from taking the action hereinafter more fully described. Carl Graham, one of the testators nephews, as well as a legatee under the will, has also been named a respondent in said petition. His legacy was the sum of $20,000.