Gormley v. Watson

The Court of Appeals certified two questions to the Supreme Court. (1) “Is an order and judgment of a court of ordinary allowing the duly appointed and regularly qualified executor of an estate to resign, and the appointing of another person as administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexo> valid where it appears on the face of the record that no notice was given to the next of kin or to the persons most beneficially interested under the will, but that the proceedings for sueh resignation and appointment of a successor to such executor were in effect ex parte, and that the petition for…