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Matter of Billy

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Oct 17, 1958
7 A.D.2d 614 (N.Y. App. Div. 1958)

Opinion

October 17, 1958

Appeal from the Cattaraugus Surrogate's Court.

Present — McCurn, P.J., Kimball, Bastow, Goldman and Halpern, JJ.


Decree reversed on the law and facts and petition in Cattaraugus County dismissed, without costs of this appeal to any party. Certain findings of fact disapproved and reversed and new findings made. Memorandum: The Surrogate has found that the infant at the time of her death was domiciled in Cattaraugus County. There was no evidence upon which to base such a finding. The parents had separated in 1947 and the mother established a separate domicile with the two children in Niagara County. Thereupon the domicile of the decedent became that of the mother. ( Matter of Thorne, 240 N.Y. 444, 449; People ex rel. Halvey v. Halvey, 185 Misc. 52, 54, affd. 269 App. Div. 1019, affd. 295 N.Y. 836; Restatement, Conflict of Laws, § 32.) In December, 1956 the Children's Court of Niagara County placed the decedent in the custody of the Commissioner of Public Welfare of that county and she was committed to an institutional home in Buffalo. The mother paid $15 weekly for her support therein pursuant to the same order. In August, 1957 the decedent ran away from the institution and sojourned with her father in Cattaraugus County from August 14 to about August 30, 1957. The decedent was killed in an automobile accident in Niagara County on September 13, 1957. Implicit in the decision of the Surrogate is a finding that the decedent could choose her residence or domicile. This an infant may not do. (Cf. Matter of Thorne, supra, p. 450.) The decedent at the time of her death was a resident of Niagara County and the Surrogate of Cattaraugus County was without jurisdiction. (Surrogate's Ct. Act, § 45.) All concur.


Summaries of

Matter of Billy

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Oct 17, 1958
7 A.D.2d 614 (N.Y. App. Div. 1958)
Case details for

Matter of Billy

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Estate of DONNA F. BILLY, Deceased. KATHLEEN G…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department

Date published: Oct 17, 1958

Citations

7 A.D.2d 614 (N.Y. App. Div. 1958)

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