In re the Estate of Pedrette

Delehanty, S.

Prior to this year the gradual legislative development of the jurisdiction of the Surrogates' Courts of this State had left wholly unaffected the situation which sometimes existed when litigations pending in courts of general jurisdiction made impossible the completion of administration of an estate. Parties who had the undoubted right and perhaps the obligation to pursue their remedies in courts of general jurisdiction were obliged to continue in that jurisdiction to a conclusion of the controversy. It happened not infrequently that resort was had to such jurisdictions by…