In re Estate of Provost
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
. Appeal by Harriet T. Provost, as sole surviving administratrix, ■etc., of David S. Provost, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Kings county, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 2d day of February, 1903, confirming the report of a referee upon an .accounting, and directing the appellant to file an amended account.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
Letters of administration on the estate of David S. Provost, deceased, were issued on August 3, 1892, to the appellant, Harriet T. Provost, his widow, and John C. Provost, his father. The only asset of the estate was a policy of life insurance upon which there was collected on September 24, 1892, the sum of $5,054.15. John *88-C. Provost died in the year 1894, and the proceedings under review were instituted by the respondent, Sarah Provost, a surety on the administrator’s bond, to compel an accounting by the appellant as surviving administratrix. An order having been made…
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