Hoch v. Hoch

SMITH, Chief Justice.

In 1921 Fred Hoch and his wife legally adopted appellant, Frederick Hoch, then an infant. In 1935 the adoptive parents were divorced. In 1940 Fred Hoch died intestate in Cameron County, necessitating administration in that county upon his estate. He had no children other than tire adopted son, Frederick Hoch.

In due course the intestate’s blood brother, Henry Hoch, filed his application for appointment as administrator of the decedent’s estate, and the adopted son, Frederick, filed his opposition to Henry Hoch’s application, and renounced his own right to the appointment…