In Re the Estate of Rogers
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by Pliny T. Sexton, as executor of the last will and testament of Lucinda Rogers, deceased, from a judgment of the. General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered January 22,1896, which affirmed a decree of the surrogate of Wayne county.
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Appeal by Pliny T. Sexton, as executor of the last will and testament of Lucinda Rogers, deceased, from a judgment of the. General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered January 22,1896, which affirmed a decree of the surrogate of Wayne county. These proceedings were commenced on the 2Jth of July, 1891, by Ruth E. Moore, as administratrix de bonis non of the estate of William Rogers, deceased, to compel an accounting by Pliny T. Sexton, as executor of the last will of Lucinda Rogers, deceased, and to require him, as such, to pay over to her, as such, that portion…
1Opinion of the CourtYarn, J.
The primary question upon this appeal is whether the Statute of Limitations is a bar to an accounting, demanded of the appellant, as executor of Lucinda Bogers, for the purpose of compelling him to pay over to the respondent, as administratrix de bonis non of William Bogers, certain assets belonging to the said William that came to the possession of the said Lucinda, as his administratrix, and upon her death came, with other property, into the possession of her executor. Lucinda Rogers became administratrix of William Rogers on the 8th of July, 1874, more than ten years prior to her death,,…
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