In re the Judicial Settlement of Jones Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Gertrude M. Jones, as sole executrix, etc., from parts of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Monroe, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 23d day of February, 1910, judicially settling the accounts oíj W. Martin Jones, deceased, trustee under the will of Henry Powis, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
Henry Powis died in 1884 leaving a will in which he named two of his daughters and W. Martin Jones as executors and trustees. The will was admitted to probate. The daughters renounced and letters testamentary were issued to Jones. In 1886 a judicial settlement was had by him as executor, showing in his hands as trustee about $18,000, which he continued to manage and invest until his death in 1906.
The testator had been in the habit of loaning money in western States. There was a life tenant, Richard Powis, of a part of these funds, and he with the remaindermen or the ultimate…
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