When Leonard Asbury Busby, Chicago tractionman, died in 1930, he left an estate of $1,598,000 and debts of nearly $1,000,000. Named as executor was the trust company affiliated with Chicago's big First National Bank, of which Mr. Busby's good friend Melvin Alvah Traylor was president. Last month, after the estate had shriveled to a mass of debts, Mrs. Esther Busby marched into the Probate Court and sued First National for the $500,000 equity which had been hers when her husband died and the bank took charge.
High point of the trial was Mrs. Busby's...
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