Court Opinion

ID: 6151316
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-05 15:59:13.333212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:55:02.566844
License: Public Domain

Schulz, S.
This is an ex parte application for an order granting leave to an administratrix to enter into the possession of the real property of which a decedent died seized. The reason the order is desired is stated to be that a tenant in one of the parcels of such real property refuses to pay the rent therefor unless such order is made.
I can find no authority sanctioning the mating of such an order upon the facts alleged. Section 2701 of the Code of Civil Procedure which counsel has drawn to my attention does not cover the matter. That section provides that application for the relief mentioned may be made and that if from the petition “ it shall appear that a mortgage, lease or sale of such real property will be necessary unless the purposes specified in section 2703 of this title be otherwise fulfilled, a citation shall issue * * *. ”
The petition in this matter alleges that no “ mortgage, lease or sale of such real property hereinbefore set forth or any part thereof will be necessary at this time.”
It is evident that the provisions of the section in question were intended to obviate the necessity of a sale and perhaps a sacrifice of real estate for the purposes stated in section 2703 of the Code of Civil Procedure, when the same could be prevented by empower*177ing the personal representative to collect the rents and apply them to the payment thereof. See note to this section in the Report of the Revision Commission, February 9, 1914; Jessup & Redfield Surr. Pr. § 967.
It will further be noted that even where the facts are such as to justify an application under section 2701 of the Code the relief cannot be granted without the issuance of a citation to the known persons within the state of New York who have the legal title to such real estate by descent or devise to show cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. The application must therefore be denied.
Application denied.