Matter of Germaine
New York Court of Appeals
The decree of 1920 fully and finally adjudicated the rights, claims and interests of the respondents to the funds in question. (Staples v. Mead, 152 App. Div. 745; Matter of Von Bernuth, 127 Mise. 705; Kirk v. McCann, 117 App.
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The decree of 1920 fully and finally adjudicated the rights, claims and interests of the respondents to the funds in question. (Staples v. Mead, 152 App. Div. 745; Matter of Von Bernuth, 127 Mise. 705; Kirk v. McCann, 117 App. Div. 56; Mangara v. City of Brooklyn, 98 N. Y. 585; Brackett v. Harvey, 25 Him, 502; Alt?nan v. Hofeller, 152 N. Y. 498; Matter of Hodgrnan, 140 N. Y. 421; Crabb v. Young, 92 N. Y. 56; Fitzgerald v. Topping, 48 N. Y. 438.) The right to recover not existing in 1920, the 1929 amendment (L. 1929, ch. 518) was not retroactive. (Jacobus v. Colgate, 217 N. Y. 235; MacAffer v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Crane, Ch. J.
The decedent, Carl L. Chamberlin, died intestate on the 8th day of August, 1911. He left him surviving no widow, no children or other next of kin. His wife, Nellie B. Chamberlin, had predeceased him. Administrators were thereafter duly appointed, and on the 5th day of January, 1920, their accounts were judicially settled and they were discharged.
The decree of the Surrogate settling the accounts and discharging the administrators provided that personal property of the value of $4,526.04 should be distributed to the next of kin of the said Nellie B. Chamberlin, as Carl L.…
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