In Re the Accounting of Egan
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered May 4, 1921, which reversed, so far as appealed from, an order of the Onondaga County Surrogate’s Court directing the county treasurer of said county to pay over to the executor herein the proceeds of a sale of real property of Hannah E. Murphy, deceased, deposited with said county treasurer pursuant to a final judgment in an action of partition.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered May 4, 1921, which reversed, so far as appealed from, an order of the Onondaga County Surrogate’s Court directing the county treasurer of said county to pay over to the executor herein the proceeds of a sale of real property of Hannah E. Murphy, deceased, deposited with said county treasurer pursuant to a final judgment in an action of partition. The Appellate Division held that the surrogate had no authority to direct payment of the entire amount to the executor where the debts of…
1Opinion of the Court
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.
2Cited by1 opinion
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