Hood v. Higgins' Curator

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Willis

Reversing.

William Higgins died in Louisville, Ky., intestate, and at the first term of the Jefferson county court thereafter Mary A. Hood applied for letters of administration. Higgins, by appropriate proceedings in the Jefferson circuit court, had adopted the appellant, Mary A. Hood, as his child. The blood relations of Higgins objected to the appointment of appellant as administratrix, and requested the appointment of a trust company. Certain creditors of the decedent joined in the objections and motion of the blood relations. The county court refused to…