Abrain v. Pereira

Cutter,^'J.

This is a petition by the administrator of the estate of Benjamin C: Pereira (hereinafter called the dece dent) for instructions with respect to the proper distribution of a fund of $3,282. This fund was obtained (under a decree dated September 20, 1955), as an asset of the decedent’s estate, by compromise of a suit in equity brought by the administrator, after his appointment, to recover for the estate a savings bank account which stood at the decedent’s death in the name of the decedent as trustee for his sister Juliana C. Pereira. The decedent died intestate leaving no widow or…