In re Kaplan

In a proceeding to punish the executor of an estate for contempt of court, the executor appeals from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County (Bloom, S.), dated March 9, 1987, which, inter alia, ordered him to pay the petitioner the sum of $12,183.

Ordered that the decree is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and the petition is dismissed.

After seven years of protracted litigation following the death of her mother, the petitioner entered into a stipulation of discontinuance and a general release with her father, the executor of her mother’s estate and the appellant…