Parsons v. . Lyman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 84 state decisions

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1. ““The rule tliat personal property is subject to the law which governs the person of its owner, as to its transmission by bequest or intestacy, though founded on international comity, is' equally obligatory upon our courts as a legal rule of purely domestic origin. * . * * Whether the courts of this state are to decree distribution of the assets collected here under an ancillaiT administration granted by them, or to remit the disposition thereof to the courts of the testator’s domicile, is not a question of jurisdiction, but of judicial discretion, upon the circumstances of the particular case. The testator died a resident of Connecticut, as were his executors and legatees. Five-sixths of the estate was before the probate court of that state for accounting and distribution, and the executor desired to remit to that jurisdiction the distribution of the remainder which had- been collected by virtue of administration granted to him by the surrogate of New York. Several of the legatees who, after the testator’s death, became residents of this state, insisted that the distribution should be decreed by the surrogate of New York, to whom the executor had ax>plied for a final settlement of his accounts. It axspeared that the surrogate differed in opinion from the courts of Connecticut in reference to the construction of the will. Hold, that the surrogate should have remitted the distribution to the courts of Connecticut.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watkins v. Eaton