In re the Judicial Settlement of the Intermediate Account of Proceedings of Kruppenbacher

A proceeding was instituted in the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester County by the widow of decedent, life beneficiary of a trust of his residuary estate, to compel the trustees to account. The latter voluntarily filed an intermediate account. Both proceedings were consolidated. Several objections to the trustees’ account were filed by the widow and one of the remaindermen. Only one of those objections is here involved, namely, that the trustees were negligent in holding the real estate until 1936, instead of selling it within a reasonable time after the testator’s death in 1925. In the…