In re the Estate of Madden

Wingate, S.

This is an application to vacate a decree of judicial settlement of the accounts of an administratrix. The facts alleged are quite unusual.

The decedent died intestate on October 17, 1931. Letters of administration were issued to the present respondent about a month later. Among the assets which came into her hands was an account in the sum of $2,000 in Pulton Savings Bank, standing in the name of the decedent.

The statutory distributees were the present respondent, a nephew and the petitioner herein, who, at that time, was an adjudged incompetent, committed to confinement as such.…