In re the Estate of Brown

Wingate, S,

Two questions respecting the right to receive letters of administration de bonis no?i are involved in the present proceeding. The first raises a point upon which no directly pertinent adjudication has apparently ever been made. The basic principles respecting the second are well established by repeated determinations.

Letters of administration upon the estate of the present decedent were issued to Austin Louis Brown, her sole heir and next of kin, on August 25, 1931. He entered upon the discharge of his duties and died on July 28, 1934, prior to their completion.

The question is now…