Legal Opinion

In re the Estate of Gentry

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided March 31, 1931PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Wingate, S.

A recital of the actions of the accountant in this proceeding does not paint an attractive picture. Not only has he personally appropriated and squandered all of the personal assets of his intestate mother, but he has sought to foreclose any possible inheritance by the infant child of his deceased brother, first, by a conveyance to his mother-in-law of the decedent’s realty, and second, by the interposition, allowance and alleged payment as administrator of a claim the nature and payee of which are of wraithlike intangibility.

The intestate died on February 20, 1929. Six days later,…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. In Re the Final Accounting of FrazerNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
  2. Ulster County Savings Institution v. YoungNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
  3. In re MerrillAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1926
  4. In Re the Estate of TaylorNew York Court of Appeals · 1929
  5. In re WarrinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. In Re the Estate of RandallIdaho Supreme Court · 1942
  2. In re the Estate of GellisNew York Surrogate's Court · 1931
  3. In re the Estate of GreenbergNew York Surrogate's Court · 1936
  4. In re the Estate of ValverdeNew York Surrogate's Court · 1933
  5. In re the Estate of MichelsonNew York Surrogate's Court · 1933

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