In re the Estate of Reit

Foley, S.

This is an application for letters of administration. The decedent was survived by two children, an adult son and a minor daughter, as her distributees and next of kin. The son has renounced his right to receive letters and has nominated in writing the petitioner as administrator. The latter person is not entitled to take or share in the estate under the Statute of Distribution. He bases his right to be appointed adminis* trator, however, upon that portion of section 118 of the Surrogate’s Court Act which authorizes the grant of letters “ to a competent person or persons not…