Boyd v. Cloud
Superior Court of Delaware
The first above entitled case was an appeal from an order of the Register of Wills of the State of Delaware in and for Kent County, removing William Boyd as administrator of Joshua Boyd, deceased, being No. 96, October Term, 1905. The second case was an appeal from an order of the said Register of Wills removing William Boyd, administrator of Joshua Boyd, deceased, and appointing James Francis Wilds administrator of Joshua Boyd, deceased, being No. 97, October Term, 1905.…
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The first above entitled case was an appeal from an order of the Register of Wills of the State of Delaware in and for Kent County, removing William Boyd as administrator of Joshua Boyd, deceased, being No. 96, October Term, 1905. The second case was an appeal from an order of the said Register of Wills removing William Boyd, administrator of Joshua Boyd, deceased, and appointing James Francis Wilds administrator of Joshua Boyd, deceased, being No. 97, October Term, 1905. Facts :— Joshua Boyd died in the early part of June 1905. He left to survive him as his only heir at law a brother, John…
1Opinion of the Court
Lore, C. J.:
—We remand the papers to the Register of Wills and order him to send up such certificates as will satisfy us that the record is before us. We do not know of any statutory provision to the effect that an appeal from the Register of Wills will abate because of lack of certificate. It is not like a certificate of a Justice of the Peace.
The motion to dismiss the appeals on that ground is refused.
(The Register thereupon appended his certificates to said papers, stating that the annexed papers were a true and correct copy of all his record entries in ¡the above stated causes and of all…
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- In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of the ExecutorsNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
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