In re Estate of Kimball
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Maude E. Kimball, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Kings, entered in the office of said Surrogate’s Court on the 8th day of March, 1897, denying-her application for letters of administration upon the' estate of Edward 0. Kimball, deceased, and for the revocation of the letters of administration issued upon said decedent’s estate to Harriet A. Kimball and John S.. James.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The intestate died November 9, 189.6. On the next day a petition was filed with the- surrogate of Kings county by Harriet A.. Kimball, his mother, alleging that the intestate was unmarried and left him surviving no widow. Whereupon, on the same day, letters *321of administration were granted to her and John S. James, her son-in-law. The appellant, Maude E. Kimball, on December seventeenth, filed a petition to revoke these letters of administration, asking for the issue of letters to herself, and alleging that she was the widow of the intestate, having been married to him in the…
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