Hollister v. Hollister
New York Supreme Court
The complaint avers that one Hartley Hollister, late of Paw-let, in the county of Rutland, Vermont, deceased, was indebted to plaintiff at the time of his decease in about the sum of $562. That the decedent died intestate, leaving defendant his sole heir, and Lucy Hollister, his widow, him surviving, in said Pawlet, where he resided at the time of his death; where, and in which county, and probate district, in said state of Vermont, his estate and effects, real and personal,…
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The complaint avers that one Hartley Hollister, late of Paw-let, in the county of Rutland, Vermont, deceased, was indebted to plaintiff at the time of his decease in about the sum of $562. That the decedent died intestate, leaving defendant his sole heir, and Lucy Hollister, his widow, him surviving, in said Pawlet, where he resided at the time of his death; where, and in which county, and probate district, in said state of Vermont, his estate and effects, real and personal, were situated and located, and to be administered upon, except certain real estate situated in the towns of Hebron and…
1Opinion of the Court
C. L. Allen, Justice.
By the 27th section of the act relative to granting letters of administration in cases of intestacy, (2 R. S. 73,4dh ed., 258,) it is enacted, that the surrogate of each county shall have sole and exclusive power, within the county for which he may be appointed, to grant letters of administration of the goods, chattels, and credits of persons dying intestate in the following cases:—
1. Where the intestate, at or immediately previous to his *535death, was an inhabitant of the county of such surrogate, in whatever place such death may have happened.
2. Where an intestate, not…
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