Ex parte Thompson

The Surrogate.

The deceased, who was a cook on board of the steamship Hermann, departed this life at sea on the third of February last, while on the way from Bremen to Southampton. Two days before, when the vessel was lying at the wharf at Bremen, he told Frederick Pearson that he wished the money belonging to him, on deposit in the Seamen’s Savings Bank in the city of New York, to be sent to his mother, residing at Glasgow in Scotland. This declaration was made in his last sickness, when the decedent expected to die, and with the intention of making a posthumous disposition of his property.…