Foster v. Mott

The Surrogate.

Alfred W. Foster, of Sag Harbor, Suffolk county, the paternal uncle of the minor, applies for letters of guardianship, and the application is resisted by the maternal grandmother of the child, who resides"in this city. The minor is a girl about ten years old, and possessed of no property, except a few hundred dollars in the savings-bank. Her mother died some seven years ago; after the decease of his wife, the father remained single until September, 1853, when he married again. He died on the fifteenth of the pre*410sent month. I understand both of the parents to have resided with…