Hyde v. Hyde

The Surrogate.

The decedent died January 4th, 1856. Louisa Hyde, claiming to be the intestate’s widow, took out letters of administration upon his estate, and on an application by the guardian of Charles E. Hyde, an infant child of the deceased,, to revoke the grant of letters, there has been a contestation as to the marriage of the administratrix. It appears that the decedent and Louisa lived together some seventeen years, and had children ; that during a portion of this period Mr. Hyde had a wife living, who died October 7th, 1852; after whose decease, it is alleged, a contract of marriage…