In re McClelland

Wingate, S.

In this accounting the administratrix, the widow of an intestate who died seized of certain New York real estate, applies for an exemption allowance of $150 pursuant to section 200, subdivision 4, of the Surrogate’s Court Act, and for a further allowance of $150 for her reasonable sustenance for forty days after the death of the deceased, pursuant to section 204 of the Real Property Law. Her right to the former cannot be open to question on the facts presented and the wording of the statute, and, indeed, in this department, the right to such allowance would have been indisputable…