In re the Estate of Feehan

Wingate, S.

This application for letters of administration is predicated upon a presumption of death through absence. It appears that in 1848 or thereabouts Mary Feehan, then a young girl, left her home in Kilkenny, Ireland, to take up a residence in India where she was to be employed as a servant. In 1887 Patrick Feehan, a brother of Mary, who also had left Ireland (he, however, to make a home in America), died a resident of Kings county, leaving a will wherein Mary was named as legatee. The court is *838referred to certain documents received during the course of the administration of Patrick’s…