Welch v. Flory

This case involves a decree for distribution of the estate of Agnes Welch, who died intestate in Lowell in 1929. The respondent, the husband of a niece of the intestate, was appointed upon his own petition as administrator of the estate of the intestate in September, 1929; in that petition he stated that she left no husband and as her only heirs at law and next of kin James Welch, hereafter called the petitioner, described as her brother, and other persons described as nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces; the residence of the petitioner was stated to be Boston, Massachusetts. The…