In re the Judicial Settlement of Account of Proceedings of Steenwerth
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Caroline Alheidt and others from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Kings, entered in said Surrogate's Court, on the 1st day of July, 1903, as directs that the said executor, John H. Steenwerth, pay certain claims of Louisa D. Pfuderer,, a creditor, and also the. costs of her attorney.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The claimant and the executor agreed that the surrogate .upon the judicial settlement of the executor’s accounts should hear and determine two claims against the estate which had been rejected. The learned surrogate disallowed the first claim save the item of fourteen dollars paid to a druggist for medicines. Another item of sixty dollars paid for taxes is not now disputed. The second claim was allowed. It is made up of sixty-six dollars for interest on a loan to the testator, one hundred dollars and three hundred and thirty dollars, both for the care and nursing of the testator at…
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