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LOPES v. DOWNEY

334 Mass. 161 (1956)

134 N.E.2d 131

LORENCO ARAUJO LOPES & others vs. WILLIAM S. DOWNEY, public administrator, & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

May 10, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Antonio de J. Cardozo, for the petitioners.

Dorice S. Grace, Assistant Attorney General, for the Treasurer and Receiver General.

William S. Downey, public administrator, filed a brief.

Present: QUA, C.J., RONAN, WILKINS, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.

RONAN, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the county of Bristol dismissing a petition for distribution filed by the petitioners who claim to be the next of kin and heirs at law of the intestate, Nicolau T. Lopes, whose estate is being administered by the respondent, a public administrator. We have no transcript of the evidence and the facts appear from a report of material facts made by the judge...

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