In re the Accounting of Stanley

Taylor, S.

Hans Eckardt met Ms death on the 23rd day of June, 1943, at the hands of his wife, Anna Marie Eckardt. The wife was thereafter indicted for murder in the first degree and has since been acquitted upon the ground that she did not know at the time the nature and quality of her act and that at the time of the trial she was sane. (Penal Law, § 1120.)

In order to avoid any confusion preliminarily, it was agreed that the County Treasurer might be appointed administrator of the Hans Eckardt estate. There was a policy of insurance upon the life of the decedent and by common consent the…