Dixon v. Russell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

Martha T. Eiske died testate, at Cairo, Egypt, on the 23d day of January, 1908, being a resident of the State of Ehode Island at the time of her death. Letters testamentary were issued upon her estate as a non-resident testatrix by the surrogate of New York county to the prosecutors. She was not the owner of real estate within this state, but was possessed at the time of her decease of one thousand one hundred and fifty shares of the capital-stock of the Standard Oil Companjq a corporation of New Jersej’, the certificates of which stock were…