In re the Judicial Settlement of the Estate of Joost

Church, S.

The executor in his accounting states 'that, among the assets left by the deceased was a note for $12,000,. which was made by one Moritz Hammerschlag, and also two certificates of stock of the .Waverly Refining Company, each for fifty shares of the par value of $100, as collateral to the same; but 'that such note was uncollectable and that the company whose stock was thus pledged as collateral was insolvent and, therefore, he was unable to obtain this money for the estate. The contestant, however, asserts that the executor could, with due diligence, have collected such note and that…