In re the Accounting of White

This is an appeal by the executors of the estate of Harold C. Stafford, deceased, and the special guardian, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Warren County which allowed the claims of respondents against the estate. At the time of his death on June 8, 1948, the decedent was insured under two policies of insurance with the Prudential Insurance Company of America. In one of these policies his sister, Ada Hoyt, was the designated beneficiary which policy amounted to $5,622.79, and in the other his sister, Reta Gilmour, was the designated beneficiary in the sum of $5,620.56. On February…