Irving v. Ford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the County of Suffolk on June 25, 1901, for a distributive share in the estate of Sheridan W. Ford, deceased intestate, in the case before this court at a previous stage as reported in 179 Mass. 216. In the Probate Court Grant, J. made a decree excluding the petitioner from the distribution.
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Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the County of Suffolk on June 25, 1901, for a distributive share in the estate of Sheridan W. Ford, deceased intestate, in the case before this court at a previous stage as reported in 179 Mass. 216. In the Probate Court Grant, J. made a decree excluding the petitioner from the distribution. On appeal the case came on to be heard before Lathrop, j., who at the request of the parties reserved it for determination by the full court, such decree to be made as justice might require.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The question which arises in this case is that left undecided when the parties were before us on a petition to the Probate Court to amend the record of a petition for administration of the estate of Robert Irving, otherwise known as Sheridan W. Ford, by substituting the name of the petitioner and liis mother as the next of kin, and to remove the administrator appointed on an earlier petition. See Irving v. Ford, 179 Mass. 216.
The case is now before us on an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court on a petition asking that the petitioner be allowed *449one third of the estate of Sheridan W.…
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