Evans v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

This case is before us on the exception of the appellant, R. W. Evans, to the decision of a justice of the superior court affirming, bn appeal, a decree of the probate court of the city of Newport.

The appellant, who was then a resident of the state of New York,' but afterwards became a resident of Canada, filed a petition in the probate court of the city of Newport in this state, praying that he be appointed administrator, c.t.a, of the estate in Rhode Island of Mary B. C. Dulles, late of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, deceased, alleging that he was a creditor of the estate. It is…