Mowry v. Latham

This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate of Smithfield by which the appellee, Daniel W. Latham, was appointed administrator on the estate of Van Buren Mowry, deceased. The grounds of appeal are, first, that the court had no jurisdiction to make the appointment because the deceased was not a domiciled inhabitant of the town of Smithfield, and, second, that the appellee was not a person entitled to the appointment.

On the part of the appellant, testimony was submitted that the domicile of the father and grandfather of the deceased, and the original domicile of the deceased, were…