In re Estate of James

On the 29th of January, 1895, there was filed in this court by A. C. Freese, public administrator, a petition alleging that one Charles A. James died in this city and county on the twenty-eighth day of January, 1895, being a resident herein and hereof, and leaving estate consisting of real and personal property of value unknown to the petitioner; that said James died intestate and left, so far as known to petitioner, as heir at law a nonresident niece; and that to collect and preserve the estate a special administrator was needed.

Upon the petition thus presented the special letters were granted and issued to the public administrator, and he thereupon immediately entered upon the premises and took possession of the property, real and personal, no one appearing to oppose or obstruct him in the exercise of the duties of his office or claiming paramount right or authority by virtue of relation to decedent or in any other manner.

Thereafter, and on the 31st of January, 1895, the said public administrator filed a petition for letters of administration, reciting the day and date of death of the said decedent, the place of death and of residence, as stated in the petition for letters…