In re the Estate of Mouawad

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Rensselaer County (Hummel, S.), entered January 22, 2008, which denied respondent’s motion for reconsideration.

Petitioner, as administrator of decedent’s estate, filed a petition to reject respondent’s claims filed against the estate. After an April 2006 trial, Surrogate’s Court found, among other things, that respondent was not entitled to the return of $15,000 paid to the estate. The court accepted petitioner’s testimony that the money was payment for three tow trucks, rejecting respondent’s testimony that the money was a down payment on…