In Re Estate of Grooms

I. The lessor now urges that the court below neither as a court of probate nor of chancery had jurisdiction to entertain the application, in that ! ‘ authority to carry on the contract was not asked as an incident of the administration of the estate, to close up the obligations connected with both the gravel business and the administration.” He says that “Grooms himself had not left any will authorizing his business to be carried on after his death,” and that the estate would have to be kept open for 19 years. It is said that the application was addressed to the discretion of the court, and…