Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Burton
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided April 15, 1932PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Evans, S.
This is a proceeding for a judicial settlement in which the main controversy involved the trial of a rejected claim.
Mary C. Hoffman is a sister of the testatrix and presented a claim against the estate amounting to $2,070 for nursing during a period of fifty-nine weeks and one day at the rate of $35 per week. The claimant is an unmarried woman, past seventy years of age *441and is a graduate nurse. She came from Buffalo to Rome to care for the testatrix in August, 1929, and remained there until the death of the testatrix in the month of October, 1930. Mrs. Burton was a widow who was…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Boughton v. . FlintNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Sheldon v. . SheldonNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Estate of DaileyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1904
- Williams v. CraryNew York Supreme Court · 1826
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of the Proceedings of LannonNew York Surrogate's Court · 1911
3Cited by4 opinions
- In re the Estate of BastenNew York Surrogate's Court · 1953
- In re the Construction of the Will of BruckheimerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1942
- In re the Estate of RyanNew York Surrogate's Court · 1936
- In re the Accounting of FinchNew York Surrogate's Court · 1949