Batcheller-Durkee v. Batcheller

This cause is before this court on a bill of exceptions to a decision of the presiding justice of the Superior Court reversing a decree of the municipal court of the City of Providence by which George R. Batcheller, one of the appellees, was appointed administrator of the estate of his deceased sister, Martha A. Batcheller. This appointment was made upon a waiver of notice not signed by the appellant, who claims to have been entitled to notice as the adopted child of George H. Batcheller, the deceased father of the intestate, and hence, as she claims, one of the next of kin of the intestate.

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