Hooker v. Porter

This is an appeal from a widow’s allowance decreed by the Probate Court to Margaret E. Hooker, widow of Allan A. Hooker who died October 21, 1927, intestate. Apart from his widow his only heir-at-law was his father. The petition for allowance was filed in January, 1930. The estate consisted of both real and personal property amounting in all to about $165,000. There were practically no outstanding debts against the estate except claims of the appellant in these proceedings, who has brought an action in the Superior Court based upon a promissory note for $100,000 and on two instruments alleged…