Bowen v. Stewart

This was an application to remove an administrator. The decedent had been for many years a citizen of Carroll county, and died a citizen thereof on the 10th day of February, 1890, intestate, leaving, as his only heirs, his widow, Catherine J. Bowen, and his children, Abner T., Nathaniel, Edward, and Henrietta T. Bowen, and Mary Busey, who are the appellants.

On the 3d day of April, 1890, the appellee was appointed by the Carroll Circuit Court the administrator of the estate of said decedent, no one having taken out letters of administration upon said estate antecedent thereto.

The application…