Harris v. Starkey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appear from an order of the Probate Court dismissing a petition by Myra E. Starkey for a revision of the order of distribution of the estate of Daniel P. Kingsley, who died testate in 1886. Hearing before Knowlton, J., who reported the case for the consideration of the full court, such decree to be entered as law and justice might require. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The appellant was one of the heirs at law of Daniel P. Kingsley, who died testate, and as such was entitled to one eleventh part of the rest and residue of his estate. Through ignorance and mistake on the part of the executor and the judge of the Probate Court she was not named in the decree of distribution as one of the persons amongst whom the rest and residue was to be divided. She herself had no notice or knowledge of the probate of the will of said Kingsley, nor of the application for an order of distribution, nor of the proceedings thereon, nor of the payments made by the executor under…
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