Nash v. Whitcomb
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on April 26, 1915, under R. L. c. 162, § 13, for leave to enter and prosecute an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Norfolk made on February 24, 1915, admitting to probate the will of Stephen H. Price, late of Weymouth, and appointing the respondent, Carrie T. Whitcomb, who was a creditor of the testator, the administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of Stephen H. Price.
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Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on April 26, 1915, under R. L. c. 162, § 13, for leave to enter and prosecute an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Norfolk made on February 24, 1915, admitting to probate the will of Stephen H. Price, late of Weymouth, and appointing the respondent, Carrie T. Whitcomb, who was a creditor of the testator, the administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of Stephen H. Price. The case was heard by Pierce, J., who filed a memorandum of his findings of fact, including the facts that are stated in the opinion. The single…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The respondent, who was a creditor of the estate of Stephen H. Price, was appointed administratrix with the will annexed of his estate by decree of the Probate Court on February 24, 1915.
The testator devised and bequeathed all his estate to his wife, Mary A. Price, whom he named as executrix. He survived his wife, and died on December 15, 1914, leaving as his only heirs at law and next of kin a brother, two sisters (one of whom is the petitioner) and two nieces.
This is a petition for leave to enter an appeal from the decree of the Probate Court admitting the will to probate and the issuing of…
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