Browne v. Doolittle
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court opening the account of Frank L. Doolittle, as administrator of the estate of Levi Doolittle, deceased, disallowing the disbursements therein stated among the nest of kin of the intestate, and ordering such administrator to pay the amount thereof to Andrew J. Browne, as administrator de bonis non of the same estate.
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Appeal from a decree of the Probate Court opening the account of Frank L. Doolittle, as administrator of the estate of Levi Doolittle, deceased, disallowing the disbursements therein stated among the nest of kin of the intestate, and ordering such administrator to pay the amount thereof to Andrew J. Browne, as administrator de bonis non of the same estate. Hearing in this court, before O. Allen, J., who modified the decree so as to provide, among other things, that the original administrator should be required to pay to the administrator de bonis non only such sums as might be required in the…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
On September 1, 1884, Frank L. Doolittle was appointed administrator of Levi Doolittle, and gave bond and notice as required by law. On January 5,1885, he filed an account as administrator in the Probate Court, in which he *596charged himself with the amount of personal estate according to the inventory, $9,000, and asked allowance for $1,800 paid to each of five persons named, $9,000 in all. These persons were the distributees of the estate. They all assented in writing to the allowance of the account, and no other notice of it was given. On November 8, 1886, Frank L. Doolittle was removed from…
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