In re estate of Riley

Buchanan, Y. C.

The administrator of this estate shows in his hands a small fund for distribution to the next of kin; that certain of these next of kin have died in foreign states, intestate and without debts, and that no administrators have ever been appointed for either of them. He asks a decree of distribution from this coart *568directing the payment of the shares to which these next of kin were entitled, directly to the persons who are thevr respective next of kin; without the intervention of administration on the estates of the ancestors.

Such a decree could not, of course, be made in the…