Chap. 0019 An Act relative to late entry of appeals from returns of commissioners of insolvent estates.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:

Section 1. Section sixteen of chapter one hundred and forty-two of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "court", in the second line, the words: - or if the administrator of the estate or the executor of the will of the deceased, or if an heir, legatee, devisee or creditor who is dissatisfied with the allowance of a claim, - so as to read as follows:- Section 16. If a person whose claim has been disallowed by the commissioners or by the probate court, or if the administrator of the estate or the executor of the will of the deceased, or if an heir, legatee, devisee or creditor who is dissatisfied with the allowance of a claim, omits, for cause other than his own neglect, to claim or prosecute his appeal as before provided, the supreme judicial court in any county, may, upon his petition filed within two years after the return of the commissioners and within four years after the date of the administration bond, allow him upon terms to enter and prosecute his appeal.
Section 2.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 2, 1916.