In re the Estate of Peart

This contest concerns the administration of the estate of the decedent, Elizabeth Jones Peart, who at the time of her death on April 3, 1949, and for some years prior thereto, was a resident of New York. The petitioner, Roland Peart, also known as James Peart, applied for letters of administration as the surviving husband of the decedent. In this he was opposed by the objectant-appellant, a sister of the decedent. She claimed that the petitioner was not the surviving husband, and in support of that claim urged that the divorce which petitioner had obtained from his first wife in the State of…