In re the Estate of Hurley

Wingate, S.

The question presented for decision on this accounting, whereas somewhat unusual, is not unprecedented. The decedent, John H. Hurley, died on March 12, 1929, and letters upon his estate were issued on June fourth of the same year to Stuyvesant Wainwright and Perry J. Fuller, the executors named in his will. Wainwright died on November 3, 1930, and Fuller on June 13, 1932. Prior to the death of the survivor, the executors had marshaled the assets of the estate, had paid administration expenses, debts and general and specific legacies and, except for the final fixation of the State…