Rooke v. Day

This was a proceeding by rule nisi to vacate a judgment of the court of ordinary allowing a second year’s support to the widow of an intestate. The original ground of the motion was that the administrators of the intestate had not been served with notice of the application for a second year’s support. The record shows an acknowledgment of service by attorneys for the administrators, dated the same day as that on which the application was filed; that after the return of the appraisers, citation was issued and published, and that, no objection having been filed, the return was admitted to…