In Re Williams

This case is before the Law Court on exceptions to a decree of the Supreme Court of Probate, affirming a decree of the Judge of Probate of Somerset County.

The Judge of Probate ordered distribution of the balance of personal property in the hands of the administrator of the estate of an adopted person to Virgil N. Thompson who claimed the estate through an adopting parent of the decedent.

It appears from the record in the case that on the fifth day of November, 1884, Otis H. Thompson and Lois E. Thompson, husband and wife, adopted Mabel Nevins, the decedent, an illegitimate child of Annie…