In re the Estate of Mastroianni

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Schenectady County (Versaci, S.), entered August 6, 2012, which, among other things, dismissed Mary Drescher’s application to compel an intermediate accounting of certain trusts.

Nathaniel H. Daffner is the trustee of two testamentary trusts of decedent’s estate. The sole assets of the trusts are shares of Mastroianni Brothers, Inc., a corporation that operates a bakery. In 2009, respondent Mary V. Mastroianni, decedent’s mother, *1137contacted Daffner and informally asserted a potential claim to some of the corporation’s shares. Daffner subsequently…