In re the Accounting of Payne

Appeal by a creditor, Paul A. Lehmann, from a resettled decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Suffolk County, dated October 6, 1959, which inter alia: (a) judicially settled the account of the administrator; (b) approved the $4,156 settlement of the claim arising out of an accident which caused decedent’s death; and (c) directed the distribution of the compromise sum, after the deduction of $856 administration and funeral expenses, to the decedent’s brothers and sisters as his distributees. Resettled decree modified on the law and the facts by allocating $1,650 to the cause of action for wrongful…