Willcox v. Smith
New York Supreme Court
THE above entitled causes are five appeals from the decree of the county judge of Chenango county, made by him while acting as surrogate of that county, on the 29 th day of December, 1855, upon the final accounting and settlement of Lucinda Willcox, administratrix, and Elisha B. Smith and Whitman Willcox, administrators of the goods, chattels and credits of Whitman Willcox, jun. deceased.
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THE above entitled causes are five appeals from the decree of the county judge of Chenango county, made by him while acting as surrogate of that county, on the 29 th day of December, 1855, upon the final accounting and settlement of Lucinda Willcox, administratrix, and Elisha B. Smith and Whitman Willcox, administrators of the goods, chattels and credits of Whitman Willcox, jun. deceased. Whitman Willcox, jun. died intestate, at Norwich, in the county of Chenango, on the 4th day of August, 1845. On the 1st day of September, in that year, the above named Lucinda Willcox, Elisha B. Smith and…
1Opinion of the CourtBalcom, J.
The decree of the surrogate states that there is due from the estate of Whitman Willcox, jun. deceased, to Henry Snow, on a note executed by the deceased to him, the sum of $1480; that there is due to Benjamin F. Bexford from such estate the sum of $705.60; and that there is due from such estate to Henry B. Mygatt, for services rendered in settling the same, the sum of $601.55; which several sums the decree declares shall be paid from the estate of the deceased. These sums are decreed in favor of Snow, Bexford and Mygatt, against such estate, although the decree requires Lucinda Willcox, Mary…
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