Case ID: nys_73/html/1062-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "NOBLE, S.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(36 Misc. Rep. 514.)
    In re PAOLA.
    (Surrogate’s Court, Queens County.
    December, 1901.)
    Administrator—Appointment.
    Where it was desired to bring an action under Code Civ. Proc. § 2660, to recover for the death of a decedent by negligence, and his children ;and widow live in Italy, and the children are minors, letters of administration will be granted to a person described in the petition as the nearest friend of the decedent
    In the matter of the application for letters of administration in the estate of Donato Paola.
    Letters granted.
    Kennison, Crain, Emley & Rubino, for petitioner.
   NOBLE, S.

This application for letters of administration (limited) is made by Filomena Jordano, a resident of Queens county, who is described in the petition as the nearest friend of Donato Paola, deceased. Letters are sought for the purpose of bringing an action under section 1902, Code Civ. Proc., and the personal property of deceased is described as a certain chose in action or claim or demand against Norton, Kirk &'Baker, or the New York & Queens County Electric Light & Power Company, or both, etc. Such an action survives to the executor or administrator by special provision of law, where the decedent left, him surviving, a husband, wife,- or next of kin. It further appears from the petition that decedent left, him surviving, a widow, Juana Paola, and two minor children. Angelo Paola and Joseph Paola, residing with their mother at Na-pies, Italy. The order of preference in which administration must be granted and to whom administration can be granted is set forth in section 2660 of the Code of Civil Procedure. First, to the relatives of the deceased entitled to succeed to his personal property, who will accept the same, in the following order: Subdivision 1, “to the surviving husband or wife”; subdivision 2, “to the children.” Finally, in subdivision 9 it is provided, “Where all the preferences in this section provided are exhausted letters must issue to a creditor and the one first applying;” and, finally, “If no creditor applies, the letters must be granted to any other person or persons legally competent.” The widow and children of deceased are incompetent to receive letters, being aliens, and not residents of the state. Section 2661. The object of this action being for the benefit of the deceased’s children principally, who are unable, by their disabilities and that of their mother, to prosecute those who committed the alleged tortious act against their father and husband, the application of the next friend, Filomena Jordana, is granted. .Letters will issue on filing bond in the penalty of $300.

Letters issued.