In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Davenport

Ohubch, S.

— 'The public administrator, as ladministrator of John Herr, presents his account for judicial settlement; he was appointed on proof showing that the deceased was absent from his domicile for a period of twenty-five years, without any intimation as to his whereabouts during said period, the court holding that these facts warranted the presumption of his death.

The deceased had never married; his only next of kin, at the time he disappeared, in 1873, was a'brother, George Herr, and a sister, Dora Hatling.

The sister died, in October, 1876, leaving no children, but a husband, who…