In re the Estate of Walker

Jeremiah F. Connor, referee.

O’Brien, S.

This is a motion to confirm a referee’s report adverse to the objections filed by Gertrude D. Walker, a beneficiary of certain trusts created under the will of decedent. The issues raised present some unusual and most interesting questions relating to the sale of 6,034 shares of Eastman Kodak Company stock, between March 23, 1922, and April 6, 1922. It is contended *150that the trustees should be surcharged in the sum of $1,234,500.97, with interest. Decedent died November 29, 1917. The executors and trustees qualified December 11,1917. The executors’…