Merrill v. Berlin

These are two appeals from decrees of the Probate Court, entered on October 6, 1942, allowing the adoption by the petitioners, husband and wife, of their grandsons Robert Louis Merrill and David Oliver Merrill, now aged eleven and ten respectively, children of a son of the petitioners, Louis Faxon Merrill, and his wife, Helen Akeson Merrill, both of whom are dead. Helen Akeson Merrill survived her husband and died on November 19, 1939, leaving a will, which was proved and allowed, by which she appointed as testamentary guardians of the children her aunt, Hilda S. Berlin, and her cousins, A.…