In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Slocum
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cross-appeals by William H. Slocum and John P. Douglass, as surviving executors and trustees of Robert F. Austin, deceased, the petitioners, and by Anna B. Austin and others, the contestants, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Kings, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 16th day of May, 1900, judicially settling the accounts of said executors and trustees.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The main contention is with respect to payments made by the executors and trustees of alleged income amounting to the sum of $21,763.07. That amount appears to have- been paid to the life beneficiaries in the belief on the part of the executors that the life tenants were entitled to the income of the estate earned during the first year. The decree of the surrogate is based on the report of a referee who, after a very thorough and painstaking examination, of the authorities, reached the conclusion that these beneficiaries were only entitled to receive the income of the estate…
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- Sargent v. SargentMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
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