Cleaveland v. Draper
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk on October 30, 1905, by Gertrude S. Cleaveland of San Francisco in the State of California and Mary A. Yore of Chicago in the State of Illinois, praying for a decree of distribution of the estate of Sarah A. Ellis, late of Boston.
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Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk on October 30, 1905, by Gertrude S. Cleaveland of San Francisco in the State of California and Mary A. Yore of Chicago in the State of Illinois, praying for a decree of distribution of the estate of Sarah A. Ellis, late of Boston. In the Probate Court Grant, J. made the following decree : “ At a probate court holden at Boston in and for the said county of Suffolk on the fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six: “ On the petition of Gertrude S. Cleaveland of San Francisco in the State of…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These appellants from a decree of the Probate Court are the heirs at law and next of kin of Sarah A. Ellis, of whose estate the respondent is administrator. Nearly three years after the respondent’s appointment, an order of distribution of the personal estate in his hands was duly made by the Probate Court, directing the payment of the entire balance to Frank H. Skinner, a nephew of the deceased, who was adjudged by the court to be her next of kin. These petitioners are her grandchildren. The intestate died on November 20, 1899. The administrator ascertained from Augustus H. Ellis, a nephew…
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