In re the Estate of Amico

Wingate, S.

It is proverbial that “ hard cases make bad law.” The present is one of this variety, wherefore the court is solicitous *657to guard against the establishment of a precedent which, in other situations, might arise to plague future litigants and itself.

This decedent died in 1933, survived by a wife and daughter in Italy as his sole statutory distributees.. A nephew promptly secured letters of intestate administration and his account is now the subject of judicial settlement. The gross assets of the estate aggregated $2,589.65, and in the account the administrator sought credit for a…