In re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Account of McEchron & Ordway
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the contestant, Henry A. Howard, as executor, etc., of Clarissa Ordway, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Warren, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 12th day of June, 1900, judicially settling and allowing -the account of William McEchron and James M. Ordway, as surviving trastees of Clarissa Ordway under the last will and testament of Jones Ordway, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, P. J.:
On January 3, 1900, these respondents obtained a final judicial settlement of their accounts before the surrogate, and he made a decree wherein he credited to them certain sums, to which the appellant then objected, and also disallowed them certain commissions which such respondents then claimed they were entitled to. Both parties appealed to this .court. This court affirmed the decree as entered by the surrogate, but without; costs to either party.
During the pendency of that appeal, the balance of the fund found by the decree to be held by the trustees for distribution under…
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