MATTER OF KELLS


19 Misc.2d 511 (1959)

In the Matter of The Estate of Eleanor C. Kells, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Kings County.

September 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham J. Goldberg for petitioner.

Daniel G. Connolly and Harold W. Cohn for Public Administrator.


MAXIMILIAN MOSS, S.

This petition filed on April 17, 1959, by a first cousin of the decedent, seeks to supersede the Public Administrator to whom letters of administration were granted on December 23, 1958. The decedent died December 7, 1958. Several hearings thereafter held established the kinship of the petitioner as the decedent's first cousin and that there are no persons bearing a closer degree of kinship to the decedent.

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