In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Laytin

The Surrogate.

The testator, by his will, devised a house and lot in the city of New York to his wife for life, and bequeathed to her an annuity of $7,000. The trustees now claim a credit, as against the corpus of the estate, of upwards of $1,000 for moneys expended by them in re-plumbing the said house. No evidence has been given in the case, and the facts rest wholly in the statements made by counsel; they appearing to assume that this court has sufficient knowledge on the subject to enable it to determine the question intelligently. In this respect, it must be admitted, they are laboring…