In Re Stotts' Estates

This is a contest over the appointment of an administrator of the estates of John C. Stotts and wife, deceased, he having died on December 10, 1924, subsequent to the date of her death. Upon the application of a judgment creditor, the trial court appointed Frank Dowd, declared to be a suitable disinterested person. The appointment was objected to by Gertrude Loetscher, who, as guardian of two minor children, the only heirs at law of the decedents, petitioned at the same hearing for the appointment of herself as administratrix. She is the mother of the two minor heirs and was the wife of John…