Cave's Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Steen,

Decedent, W. Lewis Cave, died September 21, 1935, intestate, unmarried, and without issue. He was survived by four nephews and by Jean Cave, adopted daughter of another nephew, Warren F. Cave, who had died before decedent. Jean Cave, when adopted in 1922, was two years old, the decree of the court providing that she should “assume the name of Warren F. Cave and Mary R., his wife, and have all the rights of a child and heir of the said Warren F. Cave and Mary R., his wife, and be subject to the duties of such child.” The present question is whether she is entitled…