New York Surrogate's Court February 15, 1883 (Hatch v. Sigman)

The Surrogate.

This is a proceeding instituted by the petitioner, an illegitimate child of decedent, to establish a will alleged to be lost or destroyed. The right of an interested party to resort to proceedings like the present is occasionally an imperative necessity, and the mode of procedure, the proof required, and the restrictions imposed are statutory in their nature, so that a .