Pratt v. Cheney

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

Two cases, tried together below and consolidated on appeal, are here for review upon appeals from judgments entered in the court below affirming orders of the probate court of Hennepin county appointing respondent administrator de bonis non in each of the estates of Earl W. and Francis E. Gilroy, deceased war veterans. The facts were stipulated. As both cases are alike in all essential aspects, we shall limit our discussion to the first case, that of Earl W. Gilroy, who died December 30, 1918, intestate, a bachelor, and leaving as his sole heir at law his mother,…