Mactavish v. Miles

ROSE, District Judge.

Emily Caton Mactavish, administratrix c. t. a. of Mario Mayo Mactavish, has filed this'petition. She says that her decedent, who was a Carmelite nun, died on the 17th of April, 1917, in a convent of that order in Brussels, then in the military occupation of Germany, with which this country was at the time at war; that because of the difficulties and delays of communication in wartime, and of other circumstances set forth, it was noc until the 14th of May, 1919, that letters of administration with the will annexed were granted by the orphans’ court of Baltimore City to the…