Jones v. Treadwell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court, refusing to grant the petition of the administrator of the estate of Samuel Treadwell and others, praying that the share of Charles Tread-well in the intestate’s real estate as heir of the intestate might be sold, and the proceeds thereof be first applied, so far as required, to pay the debt due to the estate from said Charles Treadwell.
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Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court, refusing to grant the petition of the administrator of the estate of Samuel Treadwell and others, praying that the share of Charles Tread-well in the intestate’s real estate as heir of the intestate might be sold, and the proceeds thereof be first applied, so far as required, to pay the debt due to the estate from said Charles Treadwell. The petition to the Probate Court, which was filed March 1, 1897, recited that the said Jones was on May 28,1896, appointed administrator of the estate of said Samuel Treadwell, who died on April 27, 1896; that he…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The decision of this case depends upon the construction to be given to Pub. Sts. c. 136, §§ 22, 23. These *432sections were enacted in the Public Statutes in the form in which they were reported by the commissioners on the revision of the statutes. The first and only statute on the subject before the enactment of the Public Statutes was St. 1879, c. 225. These sections of the Public Statutes, so far as we are aware, have been considered by the court only in Allen v. Edwards, 136 Mass. 138. In the opinion in that case the court say that the sections “ are substantially re-enactments of the St. of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Allen v. EdwardsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Blackler v. BoottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Drew v. StreeterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
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