Legal Opinion
In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Hammer
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided January 15, 1918PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Proceedings on judicial settlement of accounts of administrators.
1Opinion of the Court
Schulz, S.
It appears that the decedent left no wife, no children, no representatives of a child, no next of kin and no children of his deceased wife, him surviving, and that he died possessed of personal property only. His wife, who predeceased him, left a sister, two brothers, nephews and nieces.
It is contended that under subdivision 16, section 98, of the Decedent Estate Law (being Laws of 1909, chap. 18 as amd. by Laws of 1913, chap. 489 and constituting Consol. Laws, chap. XIII) decedent having left no next of kin of his own, the next of kin of his wife Eachel Fox, should be deemed his…
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- Southwell v. GrayNew York Supreme Court · 1901
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