In re the Accounting of Saunders

Frankenthaler, S.

The Attorney-General of New York, representing the Department of Mental Hygiene, has objected to the executor’s disallowance of the department’s claim for $3,054.22 representing the cost of maintaining and caring for decedent’s daughter, an incompetent, at the Wassaic State School from January 1,1942, to July 28, 1949. The incompetent was committed pursuant to an order signed March 2, 1941, *735upon petition of her father, decedent’s husband and executor. The decedent did not sign the petition. In 1945, 1946 and 1947, statements as to the financial status of the executor and the…