People ex rel. Lewis v. Fowler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Robert Ludlow Fowler, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 2d day of June, 1919, granting relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Philbin, J.:
This is an appeal from an order of the Special Term, granting a mandamus directed to Hon. Robert Ludlow Fowler, a surrogate of the county of New York, directing him to grant “ the application referred to in the said affidavit of Herbert D. Lewis, duly verified the 24th day of April, 1919, and issue an order accordingly for the examination of said John A. Lewis in the probate proceedings now pending in the Surrogates’ Court of the County of New York, entitled ' In the Matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament of Rosetta L. Hodgman, deceased.”
The relator presented to the Special…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re Proving the Last Will & Testament of HodgmanNew York Surrogate's Court · 1919
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- In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of GerbereuxNew York Surrogate's Court · 1919