In re the Estate of McCafferty

Wingate, S.

In this executorial accounting thirty-six numbered objections have been interposed on behalf of seven contestants. A reasonably accurate computation by the court indicates that if all were sustained, the resulting surcharge of the accounts of the executors would reach the not inconsiderable total of $1,348,263.63, exclusive of interest. The trial of the multitudinous issues, many, in themselves, involving large sums, has occupied fourteen full sessions of the court and yielded a somewhat unusually voluminous record.

The decedent died on October 3, 1929. He was a man of large affairs…