In re Estate of James

On the 29th of January, 1895, there was filed in this court by A. C. Freese, public administrator, a petition alleging that one Charles A. James died in this city and county on the twenty-eighth day of January, 1895, being a resident herein and hereof, and leaving estate consisting of real and personal property of value unknown to the petitioner; that said James died intestate and left, so far as known to petitioner, as heir at law a nonresident niece; and that to collect and preserve the estate a special administrator was needed.

Upon the petition thus presented the special letters were…