Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Gourlay
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided April 9, 1940PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wingate, S.
The underlying question in this proceeding is whether a child who has been adopted is, or is not, a statutory distributee of his natural grandfather, his natural father having predeceased such grandfather.
The pertinent facts are undisputed. The present decedent, Stewart G. B. Gourlay, who died on April 11, 1933, had two sons, Everett M. Gourlay and Amos S. Gourlay. The present petitioner, Lester T. Scott, was the natural son of Amos and his wife, Gertrude, and was born in New Jersey in September, 1901. In the following month he was legally adopted in the Monmouth County Orphan’s…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Rudd v. . CornellNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
- Leonard v. . Columbia Steam Navigation Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Dougherty v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1934
- In Re the Accounting of LeaskNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
- Rathbone v. . HooneyNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
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3Cited by4 opinions
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