Cornell v. Gallaher

Cope, J. concurring.

The fifty-second section of the Act to Regulate the Settlement of the Estates of Deceased Persons, as amended by the Act of April 23d, 1855, is as follows: “ Administration of the estate of a person dying intestate shall be granted to some one or more of the persons hereinafter mentioned, and they shall be, respectively, entitled in the following order: first, the surviving husband or wife, or some person as he or she may request to have appointed; second, the children; third, the father or mother; fourth, the brothers; fifth, the sisters; sixth, the grand-children;…