Matter of Long

This proceeding was initiated by an order directing the two respondents to show cause why an order of the Supreme Court should not issue requiring them, as attorneys and officers of the court, forthwith to return to the committee of an incompetent person the sum of $3,300.

At the outset it should be stated that, although all papers in the present proceeding bear the caption of an incompetency proceeding, we regard the proceeding here on appeal as summary in character. Although facts are repeatedly mentioned in the numerous affidavits of record which relate to the incompetency proceeding, we…