Succession of Bowles

The appellee, Eleanor Mathison, being authorized by har husband, presented her petition to the Court of Probates, alleging that Thomas E. Bowles had died a short time previously, having made a nuncupative will by public act, in which she was instituted sole heir and universal legatee, and appointed executrix. She prays for the registry and execution of the will, and that letters testamentary may be issued to her. On the same day, the Probate Court decreed according to the prayer of the *32petition, and soon after the executrix was qualified. From this judgment, Field, the curator of the…