Hennessey v. Meehan

This is a probate appeal from a decree of the probate court of the city of Providence appointing the appellee administrator d. b. n. of the estate of Bridget Hennessey. The case has been certified to us by the superior court upon an agreed statement of facts under general laws, 1923, chapter 348, sec. 4.

Bridget Hennessey died intestate and without issue in 1912, leaving as part of her estate a deposit of $600 in her name in the People’s Savings Bank in Providence. Her husband, James Hennessey, who was appointed administrator, died in 1917 without having reduced this bank deposit to…