Messer v. Jones
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Agreed statement. This was an appeal from a decree of the judge of probate of the county of Knox, made and passed at a probate court held at Rockland on the third Tuesday of June, A. D., 1894, appointing- Charles D. Jones', the respondent, to be administrator of the estate of Amanda Shepard, late of Union in said county of Knox, deceased.
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Agreed statement. This was an appeal from a decree of the judge of probate of the county of Knox, made and passed at a probate court held at Rockland on the third Tuesday of June, A. D., 1894, appointing- Charles D. Jones', the respondent, to be administrator of the estate of Amanda Shepard, late of Union in said county of Knox, deceased. The case was submitted to the law court upon the following agreed statements: Said Charles D. Jones was appointed administrator upon the petition of Sarah A. Stratton and others whom, it is admitted, are first cousins of said intestate, and who claim to be…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
Appeal from a decree of the judge of probate of the county of Knox, appointing the respondent administrator of the estate of Amanda Shepard, upon the petition of the cousins of the intestate who claim to be her next of kin and heirs at law.
The appellant, and his brother and sister, Ambrose P. Messer and Eliza E. Cooper, claim to be the sole heirs of the intestate, and the only persons legally interested in her estate.
It is agreed that if the cousins are the lawful heirs of the intestate the decree of the probate court is to be affirmed. If they are not, the same is to be reversed.
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