Dixon v. Clarke

This is an appeal from a decree revoking the appointment of the respondent as administratrix of the estate of Anna S. Smith, late of Melrose, deceased. The evidence is not reported, but the judge made a report of the material facts found by him. Those facts, as well as those disclosed by the pleadings, may be summed up as follows: The appointment of the respondent as administratrix as aforesaid was made upon her petition in which she recited that she resided in Malden and that she was "the only heirs at law and next of kin” of the deceased (a cousin). Her petition was allowed ex parte without…