In re the Estate of Crichton

Otto C. Jaeger, S.

In an executrix’ accounting proceeding the decedent’s daughter by his first marriage moves for partial summary judgment as to one of the issues raised by her objections. The motion presents the question of whether the widow of a New York decedent acquired community property rights during his lifetime in his Louisiana personal property by virtue of a Louisiana statute applicable by its terms to nondomiciliaries when New York was the State of marital domicile and no such rights existed under its laws.

The testator died on November 15, 1962, a resident of this county. His will,…