In re the Estate of McQuirk

O’Brien, S.

The application for an order compelling the execu- ' tors to file an account is denied, the petitioners having failed to show that they are persons interested in this estate. (1) The condition precedent named in section 17 of the Decedent Estate Law (as amd. by Laws of 1923, chap. 301), as necessary to make that statute applicable, viz., that testator have a husband, wife, child or parent, is lacking in the present case for testator, a Roman Catholic clergyman, had neither of the above relations. Therefore, the protection of the statute and the limitation to one-half of decedent’s…