Moore v. Moore
New York Court of Appeals
This is an appeal brought by Michael P. Moore, executor of Lewis Moore deceased, from a judgment of the supreme court of the first judicial district, entered on the second day of June, in the year 1859, affirming the decree of Mr. Surrogate Alexander W. Bradford made on the 24th day of December in the year 1855. The proceedings were commenced before the surrogate of New York, in the year 1846, by John L. Moore, and George Fair to compel Michael P. Moore the executor of Lewis…
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This is an appeal brought by Michael P. Moore, executor of Lewis Moore deceased, from a judgment of the supreme court of the first judicial district, entered on the second day of June, in the year 1859, affirming the decree of Mr. Surrogate Alexander W. Bradford made on the 24th day of December in the year 1855. The proceedings were commenced before the surrogate of New York, in the year 1846, by John L. Moore, and George Fair to compel Michael P. Moore the executor of Lewis Moore, deceased, to render a final accounting of his proceedings as executor. The surrogate decreed against the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court, Wright, Judge.
The testator died in June, 1843, at his residence in New Jersey, leaving personal estate of the value as set out in the inventory exhibited by the executor to the surrogate of the county of Bergen, of over $15,000. It consisted of cash, promissory notes, household furniture, and farm stock and produce. And there was nothing in the nature or condition of the property to give to the administration of the estate an unusual character. Independent of the personal claims of the executor, the *213debts of the testator amounted to only $800, and the only debt claimed in…
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