In re Cohen

Decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Kings county, in so far as appealed from, granting letters testamentary to respondent Herman Cohen, and presently denying the application for letters testamentary of appellant Isidore Cohen, affirmed, without costs. We feel constrained to follow the precedents which hold that a person convicted in another jurisdiction of a crime which is there a felony, is not guilty of “ felony ” as that term is defined in section 2 of the Penal Law (Sims v. Sims, 75 N. Y. 466; National Trust Co. v. Gleason, 77 id. 400; People v. Gutter son, 244 id. 243) and that…