In the Matter of the Estate of Fannie May, Deceased. Alice M. Greenberg, Appellants; Sam May, Respondents

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the Surrogate Court's decree granting letters of administration to Sam May, holding that his 1913 marriage to his niece, solemnized in Rhode Island, is valid in New York because the Domestic Relations Law does not expressly apply extraterritorially; the dissent argued the marriage is void under New York public policy.