Ryan v. Cashman

The first of these two cases is a petition by Eleanor Teed Ryan, granddaughter and sole surviving heir and next of kin of William M. Teed, late of Boston, filed June 9, 1949, seeking revocation of a decree entered September 22, 1948, allowing the will of said Teed and appointing the respondent Cashman executor thereof without sureties on his bond, the will having requested exemption from sureties. See G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 205, § 4, as amended by St. 1941, c. 45, § 1. The purported ground for revocation appears to be that the testator in his will made no provision for the petitioner, and that…