In re Stillman Infants

Cohalan, S.

These are two applications for the appointment of a general guardian, James Stillman, *62an infant over the age of fourteen years, petitions for the appointment of his mother Anne U. Stillman as guardian of his person and estate. The mother petitions for her own appointment on behalf of Alexander Stillman, an infant under the age of fourteen years. The father of the infants, James A. Stillman, opposes the appointment of the mother as general guardian of the person upon the ground that in an action between the parents pending in the Supreme Court, Putnam county, one of the issues to be…