Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogate's Court of the County of New-York, 1856, Vol. 3: Surrogate In tho Cloth'o Ofloo of tho District Court of tho Un itod Btotoo, for tho Sonthorn District of Nov York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.