In re Pruyn's Will
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from surrogate’s court, Albany county. Application by John V. L. Pruyn, as legatee and executor of the will of John V. L. Pruyn, deceased, for an accounting by Anna Parker Pruyn, his coexecutor. A motion to dismiss the proceeding was denied, and Anna Parker Pruyn was ordered to render a full and complete account of all her proceedings as executrix, and she appeals. Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtPutnam, J.
The papers presented to us show that the parties interested in the estate of John V. L. Pruyn, as legatees, are Anna Parker Pruyn, his widow, John V. L. Pruyn, Harriet Parker Pruyn, and Huybertie L. Pruyn, his children. The two former qualified as executors,—said Anna on January 17, 1878, and said John on March 24, 1880,—the estate, however, having been managed almost exclusively by the said Anna, and no considerable part thereof having been received by her said coexecutor. On or about September 11, Í893, said John V. L. Pruyn, in a petition presented to the surrogate of Albany county, set up…
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- Phillips v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- In re Wagner's EstateNew York Supreme Court · 1889
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