Geaber v. Wakefield Trust Co.

This is a petition for the appointment of an administratrix de bonis non of the estate of Nicholas F. Geaber. Emma I. Geaber, his widow, was originally appointed administratrix and upon her death, the estate of her husband not having been fully administered, the appellant, a daughter of Nicholas F. and Emma I. Geaber, filed a petition in the probate court of the town of Narragansett for her own appointment, as successor to her mother, as administratrix d.b.n. of the estate of her father.

Her petition was opposed by Geraldine E. Barnes of Rantoul, Illinois, another daughter, on the ground that…