In re the Estate of Schmutz

Wingate, S.

The present application, made by an administratrix, purports to seek the permission of the court for her joinder in a mortgage of property which has been taken over in the course of a salvage operation of a mortgage of wh ch the decedent was a one-third co-owner. In view of the withdrawal of all objections upon the hearing, the sole remaining question concerns the authority of the administratrix to enter into such a transaction.

At the time of his decease the intestate was an equal one-third owner of a mortgage in the face amount of $17,500 on a six-family apartment building on the…