In re Zerega's Will

Ransom, S.

—Section 2476 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that the Surrogate’s Court of each county shall have-exclusive jurisdiction to take the proofs of wills, when the decedent was, at the time of his death, a resident of that county. Augustus Zerega died in the city of Hew York on December 23, 1888. The petition for the probate of his will, filed by his-widow, recited that the testator was “late of the County of Hew York;” that he “was, at or immediately prior to his death, a resident of the County of Hew York.” The paper was verified in the usual form. In January, 1889, all of the…