In re Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Hosford
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Henry Snyder and others, and Calvin Acldey, as executor, etc., of Theodore Snyder, deceased, legatees named in the last will and testament of Barent Van Alstyne, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Columbia, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 31st day of December, 1896, settling the accounts of J. Spencer Hosford and Edward P. Yan Alstyne, as executors, etc., of Barent Yan Alstyne, deceased, except from so much thereof as allows…
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Appeal by Henry Snyder and others, and Calvin Acldey, as executor, etc., of Theodore Snyder, deceased, legatees named in the last will and testament of Barent Van Alstyne, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Columbia, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 31st day of December, 1896, settling the accounts of J. Spencer Hosford and Edward P. Yan Alstyne, as executors, etc., of Barent Yan Alstyne, deceased, except from so much thereof as allows counsel fees and expenses to the referee and the respective attorneys. The will of Barent Yan Alstyne, deceased, was…
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
It is urged by the appellants that the said executors, failing to dispose of the real estate left by said testator within a reasonable time after the issuing of letters testamentary; should be charged, not only with the losses on such sales, but also with the expenses' incurred by them with regard to such real estate, after the lapse of a reasonable time from the death of the testator.
The 4th clause of the testator’s will was as follows: “ All the rest, residue and remainder of my personal and proceeds of my real property,- not hereinbefore devised, I give, devise and bequeath to…
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- In re Hayden's EstateNew York Supreme Court · 1889
- Harrington v. . KeteltasNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
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