In re Estate of Treadwell

Thomas,S.

Letters of administration with the will annexed were issued to the respondent on an ex parte application made by him, the persons named in the will as executors being dead. The petitioner asks that such letters be revoked, basing her application on several grounds. It is insisted, in the first place, that some months prior to the granting of the letters in question the respondent executed a formal renunciation of any right to administer. This paper, upon its face, was intended to be used to enable the petitioner to be appointed, jointly with a third person; it is dated March 8; 1900.…