In re the Estate of Strange

Delehanty, S.

In making this application to compel an accounting the petitioner, a domestic corporation, calls itself the “ assignee of all of the distributees.” If this description is correct there can be no doubt that the petitioner is a person interested in the estate within the meaning of section 259 of the Surrogate’s Court Act.

In her answer the administratrix c. t. a., by denial and an affirmative defense, challenges the status of the petitioner. She sets forth in extenso an agreement between all of the so-called distributees on the one hand and the petitioner on the other, which was…