Whitney v. Daniel

Peterson, Justice.

Respondent, who on April 1, 1939, was appointed special administrator of the estate of one Dorothy Phillips, deceased, petitioned the probate court of Mower county on April 8, 1939, as a creditor to appoint a general administrator of the estate of one Chester T. Daniel, deceased. The petition was denied upon appellants’ objection that an order of the probate court on January 11, 1938, allowing the account and discharging the special administrator of Chester’s estate upon a finding that there were no assets for general administration was res judicata that there were no assets…