Matter of Estate of Monaghan

123 A.2d 242 (1956)

Matter of The ESTATE of John J. MONAGHAN, Deceased.

Orphans' Court of Delaware, New Castle.

June 1, 1956.

Thomas J. Healy, Jr., Wilmington, for the administrator.

Bernard Hessler, Jr., Wilmington, by appointment of the Court.

Albert J. Stiftel, Wilmington, by appointment of the Court.

LAYTON, Judge.

In the absence of a wife, issue, parent, brother, sister or issue of brother or sister, Title 12 Del.C. § 512(5) provides that the intestate's personal estate should be distributed "to the next of kin of the intestate, in equal degree, and the lawful issue of such kin as shall have…