Case ID: dem-sur_3/html/0263-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Surrogate.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

New York County.
    Hon. D. G. ROLLINS, Surrogate.
    January, 1885.
    Matter of Berrien. In the matter of the estate of Peter B. Berrien, deceased.
    
    Old age and physical infirmity are not,- per se, disqualifications for the ofiice of administrator of the estate of an intestate.
    Application for letters of administration, in intestacy.
    Franklin B. Lord, for widow.
    
   The Surrogate.

Old age and bodily ailments and infirmities do not, of themselves, disqualify one from appointment to the office of administrator. The evidence that has been submitted, respecting the physical and mental condition of this decedent’s widow, has not satisfied me that she is, within the meaning of R. S., part 2, ch. 6, tit. 2, § 32, as amended, “ incompetent” to execute the duties of administratrix, “ by reason of want of understanding.”

Letters may, therefore, issue to Rachel Berrien, in conjunction with Alonzo Baker, o