Patricia G. Brooks v. William C. De Lacy, Administrator, Estate of Walter G. Maholm, Deceased

The District Court, sitting in probate, appointed a disinterested member of the bar, the appellee DeLacy, as administrator of the estate of Walter G. Maholm, deceased. The decedent was survived by his widow and a daughter by a previous marriage. Both had petitioned to be appointed administratrix. The daughter appealed from the order of appointment; the widow did not, though we permitted her counsel to appear here as amicus curiae.

Section 20-204 of the D.C.Code (1951), controlling here, provides:

“If the intestate leave a widow or surviving husband and a child or children, administration,…