New York Surrogate's Court February 9, 1933 (In re the Estate of Baker)

Wingate, S.

It is perhaps inevitable, but none the less regrettable, that the extremely specialized nature of surrogate’s law and practice is so marked that the average member of the bar is *438unfamiliar with many of its basic principles. The natural result of this peculiarity is that questions are litigated, the governing rules of which have been clearly and uniformly determined for generations.