Case Name: In re BLAKE'S ESTATE
Court: New York Surrogate's Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-10
Citations: 113 N.Y.S. 944
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re BLAKE’S ESTATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 113
Pages: 944–944

Head Matter:
(60 Misc. Rep. 627.)
In re BLAKE’S ESTATE.
(Surrogate’s Court, New York County.
October, 1908.)
Executors and Administrators (§ 17 )—Persons Entitled to Administer.
The second cousins of a decedent are entitled to administration of his estate, if there is no legal objection to them, in preference to the public administrator, though not entitled to share in his estate.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Executors and Administrators, Cent. Dig. § 44; Dec. Dig. § 17.*]
In the matter of the estate of Bernard B. Blake. On application for letters of administration.
Granted.
James W. & Charles J. McDermott, for petitioners.
For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
BECKETT, S.
The petitioners, being second cousins of the decedent, having a prior right to letters of administration, were not cited upon the appointment of the public administrator; and they having made application for letters of administration within three months after the grant of letters to the public administrator, under subdivision 3, § 21, c. 230, p. 666, Laws 1898, although they are not next of kin of decedent or entitled to share in the estate of decedent under section 2732, Code Civ. Proc. as amended in 1905 (Adee v. Campbell, 79 N. Y. 52), nevertheless they are entitled to letters of administration, if there is no legal objection to them, in preference to the public administrator (Matter of Lowenstein, 29 Misc. Rep. 722, 62 N. Y. Supp. 819; Butler v. Perrott, 1 Dem. Sur. 9).
Application granted.