In re the Estate of Lynch

Foley, S.

The immediate application here is a motion to resettle a decree in an accounting proceeding of the public administrator and to strike out the appearance of Leo T. McCauley, Consul General of the Irish Free State. The applicant is one Henry Gordon, who claims to act under a power of attorney obtained from five distributees resident in the Irish Free State.

The broader phase of the proceeding, as developed by the evidence, involves the business methods of Gordon, his solicitation of beneficiaries of estates, the procurement of agreements of compensation and the invalidity of powers of…