In re Steward's Estate
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from surrogate’s court, Chautauqua county. Judicial settlement of the accounts of Rachel Steward and William I. Phillips, as administrators of Warner Steward, deceased. Daniel Steward, a son, and Earl Cadwell and Floyd Cadwell, grandsons, of intestate, appeal from the decree of the surrogate on such accounting, and Rachel Stewart appeals from a portion of such decree. Affirmed. Argued before LEWIS, BRADLEY, and WARD, JJ.
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
Warner Steward died intestate in September, 1889, leaving surviving him a widow, Rachel Steward, and five children, some of whom were minors. This proceeding for final judicial settlement of the accounts of the administrators was instituted by them in June, 1891. The appraisers, having set apart for the use of the widow and minor children personal property to the amount of $150, ascertained that the real estate of which the decedent died seised was of the value of $5,825, in which the value of the widow’s interest (as given by statute), exclusive of her dower right, was $570.35. And because…
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