Neal v. Hamilton

George W. Ware died intestate, leaving surviving him five nieces and a nephew as his sole distributees and next of kin. His estate consisted of leasehold property and other personalty, which his niece and administratrix converted, and,, after discharging all debts and the charges incident to the-administration, there remained for distribution between $14,000 and $15,000. The nephew and nieces asserted that they were entitled as the next of kin to- be distributed the whole of this residue, while Laura -C. Hamilton claimed that the entire fund was distributable to her by force of a subsisting…