In Re the Estate of Page
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the G-eneral Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made December 31, 1886, which affirmed an order of the surrogate of the county of JSTew York, denying a motion on the part of the widow and next of kin of John D. Page, deceased, to set aside and revoke letters of administration issued by said surrogate to the public administrator. The said intestate was a non-resident of this State; he died at Rutland, Yermont.
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Appeal from order of the G-eneral Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made December 31, 1886, which affirmed an order of the surrogate of the county of JSTew York, denying a motion on the part of the widow and next of kin of John D. Page, deceased, to set aside and revoke letters of administration issued by said surrogate to the public administrator. The said intestate was a non-resident of this State; he died at Rutland, Yermont. The further facts appear in the opinion. The application for letters not having been made in pursuance of the notice authorized by statute,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeckham, J.
The citation to the widow and next of kin of the deceased was to inform them of an intended application by the public administrator of Hew York city to the surrogate of the county for letters of administration upon the estate of the intestate named in the citation, and it was stateji that such application would be made to the surrogate, at the court-house, and at a certain day and hour. This citation was issued pursuant to statute, and was necessary, under the circumstances, to give jurisdiction to the surrogate to make any order in the proceeding.
When, upon the day and hour named in the…
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