Stearns v. Allen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two petitions, filed January 3, 1902, in the Probate Court for the County of Suffolk, for the appointment of an administrator of the estate of George A. M. Ewer, late of Winthrop. ' In the Probate Court Gfrant, J. made decrees granting the first petition and dismissing the second, on the ground that Alice Louise Knight was entitled to be the sole distributee of the estate of the deceased.
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Two petitions, filed January 3, 1902, in the Probate Court for the County of Suffolk, for the appointment of an administrator of the estate of George A. M. Ewer, late of Winthrop. ' In the Probate Court Gfrant, J. made decrees granting the first petition and dismissing the second, on the ground that Alice Louise Knight was entitled to be the sole distributee of the estate of the deceased. Alice Louise Knight was the daughter by adoption of Harry T. Knight and Clara Gibbs Knight, his wife, who was the mother by a former marriage of George A. M. Ewer, the intestate. On appeal Loving, J.…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These are two petitions for the appointment of an administrator of the estate of one Ewer. The petitioner in one case represents Alice L. Knight, a sister of the intestate by adoption, and the petitioner in the other case represents uncles and aunts who are the intestate’s next of kin. The question is whether the adopted sister or the uncles and aunts succeed to the property of the deceased, and this question may be divided into two parts : First, was the adoption of Alice L. Knight legal and valid; secondly, if it was, does she take as a distributee under the statute.
At the time of the…
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