In re Estate of Comins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Julia Comins, as administratrix, etc., of James Comins, .deceased, from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of •New. York, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 10th day of July, 1896, directing her to file an inventory. The application was- made upon an affidavit of Ella. Viola Ward, stating “that she is the duly adopted daughter of James M. Comins, deceased, and is the only heir at law and next of kin of the said James M. Comins, deceased.”
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
By the order appealed from in this matter, the surrogate directed the administratrix of the estate of James M. Comins, deceased, to tile an inventory of the personal property of the estate and that for failure so to do an attachment should issue. The order was made upon the petition of a person claiming to be the adopted daughter and only heir at law and next of kin of the intestate. The widow and certain of the next of kin opposed the petitioner’s application and denied that she maintained to the decedent the relation she claimed éxisted. The surrogate granted the application…
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