Malinou v. McElroy

This is a petition for mandamus to. the clerk of the probate court of the city of Providence which was granted by the superior court in the alternative. The writ commanded respondent “to file the petition, presented to you on September 28, 1964, by the Petitioner herein, seeking administration de bonis non on the Estate of Joseph J. Goman, alias, pending in the Probate Court of the City of Providence, and docketed therein number 57034, or the cause whereof show unto us why you should not * * The respondent filed an answer thereto in which he alleged as a cause for not complying with the…