Wilkins v. Justice

Sea Bird Wilkins died intestate in the county of Marion on June 4, 1908. He left surviving no wife, child or children or descendants of a child or children or father, mother, brother or sister, but leaving some sixteen nephews and nieces and more than one hundred grand-nephews and grand-nieces.

On the sixth day of June following, one S. Catherine Justice, one of the aforesaid nieces, went before the Probate Court of Marion county and filed her petition renouncing her right to administer upon the estate and nominating her son, the appellee, for administrator. The Probate Court granted the…