Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1938

In re the Probate of Heirship

In re the Probate of Heirship
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 28, 1938
254 A.D. 933; 6 N.Y.S.2d 648; 1938 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8354
In re the Probate of Heirship

Opinion of the Court

Decree so far as appealed from reversed on the law and matter remitted to the Surrogate’s Court with direction to enter a decree determining that LiEy Smith Danforth, is entitled to inherit the property described in the petition, without costs of this appeal to any party. Memorandum: The exact question involved in this case was decided favorably to the contention of appellant in Matter of Peer (138 Mise. 247; affd. by this court in 232 App. Div. 872). All concur. (The portion of the decree appealed from determines the title in the fee to real property, in a proceeding for the probate of heirship of realty.) Present — Crosby, Lewis, Cunningham, Taylor and Dowling, JJ.

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