In re Butler's Estate
New York Surrogate's Court
Accounting by Alfred M. Wiles and John Butler, executors of the will of Patrick Butler, deceased. Laws 17. Y. 1884, c. 899, § 1, amended Code Civil Proc. 17. Y. §• 2606, so as to read as follows: “Where an executor, administrator, guardian, or testamentary trustee dies, the surrogate’s court has the same jurisdiction, upon the petition of his successor, or-of a surviving executoi’, administrator, or guardian, or of a creditor, or person interested in the estate, or of the…
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Accounting by Alfred M. Wiles and John Butler, executors of the will of Patrick Butler, deceased. Laws 17. Y. 1884, c. 899, § 1, amended Code Civil Proc. 17. Y. §• 2606, so as to read as follows: “Where an executor, administrator, guardian, or testamentary trustee dies, the surrogate’s court has the same jurisdiction, upon the petition of his successor, or-of a surviving executoi’, administrator, or guardian, or of a creditor, or person interested in the estate, or of the guardian’s ward, to compel the executor or administrator of the decedent to account, which it would have against the…
1Opinion of the Court
Weiant, S.
This accounting was commenced before the late Surrogate Suffern, in the year 1875, and the matter was sent to an auditor, before whom a considerable mass of testimony was taken. The last hearing before the auditor appears to have been had in 17ovember, 1876. After that date the proceeding seems to have been allowed to sleep until revived in the spring of 1886. In the mean time John Butler, one of the executors, died; also John and Richard Butler, legatees, and children of the testator. Proceedings were then had by which Anastasia Butler, the executrix of the will of the deceased…
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