Flaum v. Birnbaum

—Order, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Eve Preminger, S.), entered February 13, 1992, which, inter alia, revoked the Letters Testamentary previously issued to the appellant and directed the issuance of Letters Testamentary to Thomas Puccio, as successor Executor of the Estate of Saul I. Birnbaum, deceased, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The Surrogate’s Court did not abuse its discretion nor its statutory authority in removing the appellant as Executrix of her late husband’s estate, without first conducting an evidentiary hearing, where, as here, the appellant refused to obey a…