In re the Probate of the Paper Writing Propounded as the Last Will & Testament of Butterfield
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by William E. McReynolds and another, as special guardians, etc., from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Putnam, entered in the office of said surrogate on the 22d day of November, 1913.
1Opinion of the Court
Stapleton, J.:
The appeal is from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Putnam county permitting certain first cousins of a testatrix to intervene as next of kin in a proceeding for the probate of a will.
The executors nominated in the will, in the petition by which the proceeding was commenced, specified as all of the heirs at law and next of kin a grandnephew and four great-grandnieces of the testatrix. The petition for probate contains an allegation that the testatrix left her surviving no husband, no child or children, no adopted child or children, no issue of any deceased child or children,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In Re the Accounting of DavenportNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of YoungsNew York Surrogate's Court · 1911
3Cited by4 opinions
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of GoldmarkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1919
- In re Butterfield's WillAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914
- In re ClowesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914
- In re the Taxation, under the Acts in Relation to Taxable Transfers, of the Property of ClowesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914