In Re Lent

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Donges, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Prerogative Court dismissing appellants’ appeal from a decree of the Essex County Orphans Court on the ground that they had no right to appeal because they were not persons aggrieved by the decree appealed from.

The appellants are the next of kin of Ella M. Lent who died on August 13th, 1946, at the age of 87. There was offered for probate a will executed one month before her death by which she divided her estate in three parts, two parts going to charitable institutions and the third to Mary McNulty, the…