Ellis
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Petition for leave to enter appeal from decree of Judge of Probate. Appellee filed motion to dismiss, which motion was overruled by presiding Justice and petitioner was granted leave to enter his appeal. To this ruling, appellee filed exceptions. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
This case comes up on exceptions to a ruling granting the petitioner leave to enter his appeal from a decree of the Judge of Probate for Kennebec County.
The provisions of statute, so far as material in this case, are these: Any person aggrieved by a decree of a Judge of Probate, with certain exceptions not important to be noted here, may appeal therefrom to the Supreme Court to be held within the county, if he claims his appeal within twenty days from the date of the proceeding appealed from. R. S., 1916, Chap. 67, Sec. 31. Within the time limited for claiming an appeal, the appellant shall…
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