Estate of O'Brien
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Fremont Cvreuit Gourt. Henrietta O’Brien, widow of the deceased, and Emma J. Wilson, Maiy J. Wilson and Alfred L. O’Brien, heirs at law of the deceased, made application to -.the circuit court to be appointed administrators of the deceased. The application was refused, and Mary O’Brien, the mother, was appointed. The applicants above named appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
The deceased, J. W. O’Brien, for some thirteen years was a resident of Fremont county. During that time he-was reputed to be unmarried, and he made conveyances of real estate as if he was a single man. His mother resided with him, and shortly prior to his death he and his mother went to the state of New York, but for what purpose does not distinctly appear.
*623He died intestate in New York on the thirtieth day of October, 1883, and on the seventeenth day of November, 1883, Henrietta O’Brien, his widow, by Charles Holis, her attorney in fact, filed a petition asking that she and I. W. Hammond, a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Read v. HoweSupreme Court of Iowa · 1862
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- In Re Estate of BeghtelSupreme Court of Iowa · 1945
- O'Neill v. ReadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1917
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