In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Snyder
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, made November 18, 1884, which affirmed a decree of the surrogate of Rensselaer county adjudging the above-named William H. Snyder to be in and punishing him for contempt for refusing and willfully neglecting to obey a decree of said surrogate, which directed payment by him as therein specified of a sum in his hands as executor of the estate of Jabez Olmstead, deceased.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, made November 18, 1884, which affirmed a decree of the surrogate of Rensselaer county adjudging the above-named William H. Snyder to be in and punishing him for contempt for refusing and willfully neglecting to obey a decree of said surrogate, which directed payment by him as therein specified of a sum in his hands as executor of the estate of Jabez Olmstead, deceased. (Reported below, 34 Hun, 302.) The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion. Statutes must be construed prospectively only, unless…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The receipt of money by the executor in his official capacity — a judicial accounting, with a balance against him of $2,975.70, followed by a decree requiring payment to those entitled to it, and an ineffectual attempt to enforce the decree by execution, are conceded facts. Upon a petition stating these things, and alleging that after demand made, the executor neglected and refused, i£ and now willfully neglects to obey the decree,” he was, by order of the surrogate of Bensselaer county, required to show cause why he should not be punished for his alleged offense and contempt. In answer…
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