Talbot

This is an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Bristol, dismissing a petition *518of Jessie M. Talbot, dated March 25, 1924, for the appointment of herself as administratrix of the estate of Walter H. Talbot, alleged in the petition to have died on or before January 15,1924, and after the fourth day of December, 1915.

Walter H. Talbot was born in 1874, married the petitioner in 1896, and until December 4,1915, lived in Norton, Massachusetts, with his wife and one son, born in 1899. He had been engaged with others in the wool scouring business in which he had an interest.…