Conant v. Kent
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Trustee process. Writ dated February 18, 1879. Alexander S. Wheeler, administrator of the estate of Jane P. Bartlett, was summoned as trustee of the principal defendant, and answered that, at the date of the service of the writ upon him, he had not, as such administrator, any of the goods, effects or credits of the defendant in his hands.
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Trustee process. Writ dated February 18, 1879. Alexander S. Wheeler, administrator of the estate of Jane P. Bartlett, was summoned as trustee of the principal defendant, and answered that, at the date of the service of the writ upon him, he had not, as such administrator, any of the goods, effects or credits of the defendant in his hands. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after a judgment against the defendant and discharging the trustee, to this court, on the plaintiff’s appeal, upon these agreed facts: Jane P. Bartlett died in Boston on January 18, 1879, leaving no issue,…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
By the General Statutes, if a person died intestate, leaving no issue, and no father nor mother, his estate went in equal shares to his “ brothers and sisters, and to the children of any deceased brother or sister by'right of representation ; ” and “ if he leaves no issue, and no father, mother, brother nor sister, then to his next of kin in equal degree.” Gen. Sts. c. 91, § 1, cls. 3, 5; c. 94, § 16. Under those statutes, it was held that where an intestate left no issue, father nor mother, but left one sister, children of another sister, and children of deceased children of a third sister,…
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