In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wotton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by William 0. Wotton, as executor, etc., of Phebe E. • Bonnefoux, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of E"ew York, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 4th day of May, 1900, settling his accounts as such executor and overruling exceptions filed by him to the report of the referee and denying his motion for a reargument of the exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
Upon the settlement of the accounts of the appellant as the executor under the will of Phebe E. Bonnefoux, deceased, the surrogate, among other things, chaz'ged him with a loss upon the sale of some bonds belonging to the estate to the amount of $1,326 and disallowed his commissions; and although various other questions were raised in the court below, it was stipulated that nothing should be presented in this court except the propriety of those two rulings of the surrogate.
As to the fiz’st, the facts are that Mrs. Bonnefoux died in 1888 and the appellant was appointed her executor…
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