In re the Estate of Merrill

Wingate, S.

Agnes M. Merrill died intestate on April 14, 1937, survived by two brothers, a sister and three nephews, the children of a deceased sister, as her sole statutory distributees. So far as disclosed, she was, at the time of her death, possessed of no personal property other than personal belongings, but was seized of two parcels of real property, the one a two-family and store structure at 125 Melrose avenue and the other a four-family and store building at 98 Evergreen avenue, Brooklyn.

Approximately three months elapsed prior to the submission of any application for letters of…