Mace v. Cushman
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Appeal from the decision of the judge of probate for the county of Cumberland. The petitioner, from the year 1812 to the time of her death in 1855, was the husband of Betsey Mace, who died intestate and childless, (never having had any issue.) At the time of her decease, she was possessed of real and personal estate.
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Appeal from the decision of the judge of probate for the county of Cumberland. The petitioner, from the year 1812 to the time of her death in 1855, was the husband of Betsey Mace, who died intestate and childless, (never having had any issue.) At the time of her decease, she was possessed of real and personal estate. There would remain in the hands of the respondent, on the settlement of his final account of administration, a balance exceeding the sum of $1000, which the husband claimed he was by law entitled to. The deceased left brothers and sisters surviving her. On the petition of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Hathaway, J.
An appeal from a decree of the judge of probate, disallowing the claim of the appellant to the personal estate, which was of his wife Betsey Mace, who deceased intestate, Sept. 19, 1855, never having had a child, but leaving brothers and sisters alive.
Chapter 93 of R. S. of 1841, entitled, “ of title by descent,” after having designated to whom, and in what proportions the real estate of persons deceased intestate, should descend, enacted in the fifteenth section, that, after the payment of the debts of the intestate, and the charges of his…
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