In Re the Administration of the Estate of Goddard
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the. Supreme Oourt, in the second judicial department, made September 10, 1883, which reversed two orders of the surrogate of the county of Kings, one of which denied an application for the appointment of the Brooklyn Trust Company as administrator of the estate of Charles W. Goddard, deceased; the other awarded letters of administration to the public administrator of that county. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the. Supreme Oourt, in the second judicial department, made September 10, 1883, which reversed two orders of the surrogate of the county of Kings, one of which denied an application for the appointment of the Brooklyn Trust Company as administrator of the estate of Charles W. Goddard, deceased; the other awarded letters of administration to the public administrator of that county. The material facts are stated in the opinion. A special and local act of the legislature is not repealed, amended or in any way affected by a subsequent general act…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruger, Ch. J.
The controversy involved in this appeal relates to the right to administer upon the estate of Charles W. Goddard, late a resident of the county of Kings, and who died therein on the 19th day of February, 1883, possessed of personal property of the value of about $25,000. All of the adult next of kin petitioned the surrogate for the appointment of the Brooklyn Trust Company as the administrator of such estate. There were three of those persons, two of them residing in the county of Kings and one in the city of Chicago, State of Illinois.
This appointment was opposed by the public…
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