Kapp v. Public Administrator

The Surrogate.

The intestate died on his passage to this country, leaving a widow and minor children in Germany, where he had been previously domiciled. He never gained a residence in this State, but the assets left on board of the vessel in which he died, came into possession of the Public Administrator of the City of New York. Nothing having been set apart in the inventory, for the widow and children, and creditors having appeared, whose demands will exhaust the whole estate, the widow now applies by her attorney in fact, for an order to reform the inventory in this respect.

The terms of the…