In re Forkel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Christopher W. Forkel, as committee of William B. Forkel, a lunatic, from an order of the County Court of the county of Monroe, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 15th day of May, 1895, which modified the report of the referee theretofore appointed, to take and state his accounts as committee of the person and property of William B. Forkel, a lunatic.
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, J. :
The record in this proceeding establishes the following facts, concerning which there appears to be little or no controversy:
In the year 1879 William B. Forkel was, by proceedings duly instituted, declared a lunatic. At that time his family consisted of six children and a wife. Two of the children and his wife died in the year 1880, and shortly thereafter by an arrangement entered into between the ¡relatives, two of the children, John M. Forkel and Christian J. Forkel, were taken into the family of their uncle, Christopher W. Forkel, by whom they were subsequently cared for and…
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