Knight v. Hollings
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from a decree of the judge of probate of Belknap county relating to the probate of Albert K. Tilton’s will and the settlement of his estate. Facts agreed. The testator was born in Tilton in 1841, and resided there until after the close of the Civil War, when lie removed to Denver, Colorado, where Ms legal residence was thenceforth until March, 1888. He became ill in the early part of 1888, and in March carne to the home oE Ms brother, Janies II.
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Appeal, from a decree of the judge of probate of Belknap county relating to the probate of Albert K. Tilton’s will and the settlement of his estate. Facts agreed. The testator was born in Tilton in 1841, and resided there until after the close of the Civil War, when lie removed to Denver, Colorado, where Ms legal residence was thenceforth until March, 1888. He became ill in the early part of 1888, and in March carne to the home oE Ms brother, Janies II. Tilton, in Laconia, with the latter and a cousin, upon their return from a visit to Mm. He brought here much of Ms personal estate. Soon…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
Judges of probate have exclusive, original jurisdiction of the probate of wills and the settlement and distribution of the estates of deceased persons. Const., art. 79; P. S., c. 182, s. 2. Although their courts have no jury and the proceedings are not according to the course of the common law, “ they are to be regarded as courts of general jurisdiction on the subjects to which they relate, and are entitled to all the presumptions in favor of their proceedings which are allowed in the case of other tribunals ■of general jurisdiction, more especially as they are now made by ¡statute courts of…
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