References: [1854] EngR 953, (1854) 4 De G M & G 565, (1854) 43 ER 628
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The solicitor for the affairs of the Treasury, as nominee of the Crown, having taken out letters of administration of the goods of an intestate on the assumption that he had died without next of kin, was held not entitled to the costs of a suit instituted by a person rightfully claiming as next of kin.