Shaw
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. The law court were to pass such decree, upon the legally admissible evidence, as the judge of probate ought to have passed, remit the case to the probate court for further proceedings, or take any order therein that law and justice required.
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On report. The law court were to pass such decree, upon the legally admissible evidence, as the judge of probate ought to have passed, remit the case to the probate court for further proceedings, or take any order therein that law and justice required. This was an appeal from a decree of the probate court, for Penobscot county, appointing an administrator upon the estate of William Shaw, deceased, on the petition of Sprague Adams and others,- claiming to be creditors of said Shaw, filed in that court October 25, 1887. Appellant Clark, filed the following reasons of appeal: 1. Because the…
1Opinion of the CourtDaneobth, J.
These three cases are appeals, by as many different persons, from the same decree of the probate court for the county of Penobscot appointing Elliot Walker administrator on the estate of William Shaw.
The petition alleges that Shaw was a citizen of Massachusetts; that he died “August 31, 1882 intestate, seized and possessed of personal estate in said county, exceeding twenty dollars in value, which ought to be administered according to law; that said deceased died leaving real estate in said county of more than twenty dollars in value, and owing debts to more than the amount of twenty dollars,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Brigham v. FayerweatherMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
- Burwell v. CawoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1844
- Trecothick v. AustinU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1825
- Train v. KendallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
3Cited by3 opinions
- Ghilain v. CoutureSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1929
- In re RogersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1929
- Hoge v. HammondsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1943