In re the Estate of Forsyth
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. In the Matter of the Estate of Jane Forsyth, Deceased.
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Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. In the Matter of the Estate of Jane Forsyth, Deceased. In a suit by Alexander C. Forsyth for specific performance of a contract by Jane Forsyth and her husband, both deceased, to leave him their property, against J. H. Heward, executor of Jane Forsyth, deceased, and others, a decree for Alexander C. Forsyth was reversed on appeal, both as to appealing defendants and as to defendants who defaulted and who failed to appeal. Alexander C. Forsyth filed a petition asking to be allowed the share of the defaulting and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sanders, C. J.:
This is an appeal from an order approving the final account of the administrator of the estate, and from the decree of distribution. The administrator moves to *388dismiss the appeal, upon the ground that appellants have no interest in the estate, are not aggrieved parties, and have no right to complain or to be heard.
The appellants base their claim to an interest in the estate upon assignments of one Alexander C. Forsyth, who, it is said, was entitled to said estate because of an alleged contract of adoption by said Jane Forsyth and her husband, and of an agreement…
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