Case Name: Mary E. McAleer vs. Celia B. Cavanagh
Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1901-11-02
Citations: 23 R.I. 317
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mary E. McAleer vs. Celia B. Cavanagh.
Judges: Present : Tillinghast, Rogers, and Douglas, JJ.
Reporter: Rhode Island Reports
Volume: 23
Pages: 317–318

Head Matter:
Mary E. McAleer vs. Celia B. Cavanagh.
PROVIDENCE
NOVEMBER 2, 1901.
Present : Tillinghast, Rogers, and Douglas, JJ.
(1) Probate Law and Practice. New Trial. Quorum of Appellate Division.
The judgment of the Appellate Division held by a single justice in a matter in which one justice is a quorum is not subject to review by the Appellate Division held by three justices, upon a petition for a new trial. Affirming Bank v. Greene, 23 R. I. 238.
Petition for New Trial -upon the decree of a justice of the Appellate Division confirming the decree of a Probate Court approving the report of commissioners to set off dower.
Heard, and petition dismissed.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This proceeding is in form a petition for a new trial of an application by an heir at law to set out dower to the petitioner. The appeal was taken to this Division from the decree of the Probate Court approving the report of commissioners appointed by the Probate Court to set off dower to the petitioner by metes and bounds. After a hearing of the appeal by this Division, held by one justice thereof, a decree was entered confirming the decree of the Probate Court, and a new trial is asked on the single ground that the court had no jurisdiction to enter the decree.
The objections, however, as developed at the hearing, are not directed against the jurisdiction of the court to hear the case and enter a final decree therein, the statutes clearly conferring such jurisdiction, hut attack the course of proceeding at the trial and the decision embodied in the decree. The petition, therefore, is a prayer to the Appellate Division, held by three justices, to review and reverse the judgment of this Division, held by a single justice, in a matter in which one justice is a quorum.
We have no jurisdiction to entertain such an application, as has recently been fully explained in First National Bank of Hopkinton v. Greene, 23 R. I. 238, decided July 23, 1901.
Franklin P. Owen, for petitioner.
John W. Hogan, for respondent.
The petition must be dismissed.