In re Fox
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Mary Fox, an alleged incompetent person, and by Elizabeth Fox Yaden and another, children and heirs at law of Mary Fox, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the lSth day of November, 1909, resettling an order entered in'said clerk’s office on the 25 th day of October, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Carr, J. :
This -is an appeal from an order made at Special Term in Kings county, directing a trial of issues as to the alleged incompetency of one Mary Fox before a jury at a Trial Term of this court. The proceeding in .which the order was made was instituted by the petitioner, James J. Fox, a son of the alleged incompetent, and notice of the application on the petition was .given to the various next of kin of Mary Fox. On the return day thereof, and before proceeding with the hearing on the petition, the court directed that the petition and the accompanying affidavits be served, upon the…
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