Johnson v. Johnson

This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate of Cranston appointing an administrator on the estate of Anna Johnson, deceased.

The intestate died in Cranston on the 17th day of January, 1885. At and for several years prior to her death she had resided in Cranston, and in the family of Charles E. Johnson, the appellee, whose wife, also deceased, was her illegitimate daughter. The appellant, Walter H. Johnson, and his sister, Mary E. Seward, wife of Charles R. Seward, of Chicago, Illinois, are children of the said Charles E. Johnson by his said wife, and grandchildren of the intestate.

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