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BROOKS v. DE LACY

No. 14405.

257 F.2d 227 (1958)

Patricia G. BROOKS, Appellant, v. William C. DE LACY, Administrator, Estate of Walter G. Maholm, deceased, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Ward B. McCarthy, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. George C. Vournas, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. William C. DeLacy, Washington, D. C., appellee, entered an appearance but filed no brief.

Mr. Robert H. McNeill, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of Mary J. Maholm as amicus curiae.

Before BAZELON and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges, and WHITAKER, Judge, United States Court of Claims.

PER CURIAM.

The District Court, sitting in probate, appointed a disinterested member of the bar, the appellee DeLacy, as administrator of the estate of Walter G. Maholm, deceased. The decedent was survived by his widow and a daughter by a previous marriage. Both had petitioned to be appointed administratrix. The daughter appealed from the order of appointment; the widow did not, though we permitted her counsel to appear here as amicus curiae.

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