In re the Estate of Johnson

Delehanty, S.

On this application to resettle a decree on accounting the court is asked to direct that a portion of the money heretofore deposited in the city treasury for account of unknown distributees now be paid to petitioners. Deceased died August 9, 1935.

Petitioners assert that deceased was an unmarried woman whose distributees were her brothers and sisters or their descendants. The histories of the alleged brothers and sisters are given thus: A sister Kristina predeceased the deceased and was survived exclusively by an illegitimate daughter and an illegitimate granddaughter; a brother…