1101 - Petition for production of tenant for life.

§  1101. Petition for production of tenant for life. A person entitled  to claim real property after the death of another who has a prior estate  therein may, not oftener than once  in  each  calendar  year,  apply  by  petition  to  the  supreme court, at a special term thereof, held within  the judicial  district  wherein  the  property  or  a  part  thereof  is  situated,  for an order directing the production of the tenant for life,  as prescribed in this article, by  a  person,  named  in  the  petition,  against  whom an action of ejectment to recover the real property can be  maintained, if the tenant for life is dead or, where there  is  no  such  person,  by the guardian, husband, trustee, or other person, who has, or  is entitled to, the custody of the person of the tenant for life, or the  care of his estate.