Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Klein
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided April 20, 1937PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wingate, S.
The facts of this case present an unusual and legally interesting question. On May 3, 1936, the decedent was a passenger on board the fishing schooner MJR111 which collided with the steamship Angelina upon the high seas about twelve and a half miles off the New Jersey coast. The decedent and a number of his fellow voyagers were hurled into the sea, and in spite of diligent search by the United States Coast Guard, their bodies were not recovered. At the time of his death he was forty-four years of age.
He was survived by a widow, who was then forty-six years of age, and by two…
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