Case Name: In the Matter of the Estate of Benjamin Bedotsky, Deceased. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents; Theodore W. Roth, Doing Business as Missing Heirs International, Appellant. In the Matter of the Estate of Adelma R. Maxson, Deceased. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents; Theodore W. Roth, Doing Business as Missing Heirs International, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1980-12-16
Citations: 52 N.Y.2d 725
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Estate of Benjamin Bedotsky, Deceased. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents; Theodore W. Roth, Doing Business as Missing Heirs International, Appellant. In the Matter of the Estate of Adelma R. Maxson, Deceased. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents; Theodore W. Roth, Doing Business as Missing Heirs International, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 52
Pages: 725–727

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Estate of Benjamin Bedotsky, Deceased. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents; Theodore W. Roth, Doing Business as Missing Heirs International, Appellant. In the Matter of the Estate of Adelma R. Maxson, Deceased. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents; Theodore W. Roth, Doing Business as Missing Heirs International, Appellant.
Submitted November 13, 1980;
decided December 16, 1980
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Samuel Lawrence Brennglass for appellant.
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Shirley Adelson Siegel, Frank I. Strom, II, and Irwin M. Strum of counsel), for Attorney-General, respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Order affirmed, with costs, for reasons stated in the opinion by Mr. Justice Samuel J. Silverman at the Appellate Division (66 AD2d 635).
Concur: Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Meyer.