State v. Superior Court

This case brings before us for decision the question whether the superior court exceeded its jurisdiction in revoking letters of administration issued to the administrator of an estate and appointing another administrator in his stead.

A chronological sequence of the proceedings in this matter is as follows:

November 29, 1954—Alvin J. Carlson (herein called the decedent) died, being a resident of Pierce county.

January 14, 1955—Suzanne Uggen, a former wife of decedent, and mother of decedent’s fourteen-year-old son, filed a petition as a creditor of the estate, praying that Valen H. Honeywell, a…