Deraismes v. . Deraismes
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the second judicial department, affirming a decree of the surrogate of Queens county on an accounting by the executors of the will of John F. J. Deraismes, deceased.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the second judicial department, affirming a decree of the surrogate of Queens county on an accounting by the executors of the will of John F. J. Deraismes, deceased. The accounts rendered were for rents received from real estate of the deceased, situate in New York and Brooklyn, under a clause of the will constituting the executors' trustees of said rents and providing for their application; among other things, authorizing them to pay the taxes on said real estate. The will gave to Martha E. Deraismes, wife of the testator, his…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the surrogate of Queens county, upon an accounting by execu- ■ tors of the will of John F. J. Deraismes, deceased. We concur with the learned judge who delivered the opinion of the court below, that “ the case is very poorly made up, and the facts are obscurely stated; so much so that wo cannot be at all certain of not making a mistake about them.” It appears that there had been a previous accounting before Surrogate Covert, in which the executors, one of whom is the widow, had credited themselves with various sums, amounting to $1,852.93, for…
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