In Re the Estate of Brown

— George S. and Ella S. Brown were for many years husband and wife, and the owners of real and personal community property in Spokane and adjoining counties. Mrs. Brown died, and approximately three years after her decease, George S. Brown applied to the superior court for Spokane county for letters of administration upon the estate of his late wife. On the same day that Mr. Brown filed his petition for his appointment as administrator, and without the giving of any notice of his application, the court proceeded to a hearing on the petition and appointed George S. Brown administrator of the…