In re the Estate of Campbell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Mary E. Cooper, as executrix, etc., of Henry Campbell, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Oneida, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 28th day of October, 190.3, judicially settling the accounts of George R. Edgerton, as executor, etc., of Elizabeth S. Campbell, deceased, and refusing to require the said George R. Edgerton to set apart to Mary E. Cooper, as executrix, etc., of Henry Campbell, deceased, the exempt property to…
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Appeal by Mary E. Cooper, as executrix, etc., of Henry Campbell, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Oneida, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 28th day of October, 190.3, judicially settling the accounts of George R. Edgerton, as executor, etc., of Elizabeth S. Campbell, deceased, and refusing to require the said George R. Edgerton to set apart to Mary E. Cooper, as executrix, etc., of Henry Campbell, deceased, the exempt property to which she claimed that Henry Campbell, the surviving husband of Elizabeth S. Campbell, deceased, was entitled.
1Opinion of the Court
Stover, J.:
Letters testamentary,upon the estate of Elizabeth S. Campbell, deceased, were issued to George R. Edgerton on the 1st day of July, 1895. The deceased left her surviving a husband, Henry Campbell, who has since died, and one child, Mary J. Raymer,- of full age. During the lifetime of said Henry Campbell the executor tendered to him $150 in satisfaction of his claim to the statutory exemptions in the personal estate of his wife, Elizabeth S. Campbell, but the said Henry Campbell declined to receive said sum, stating that he did not want anything from the estate of his deceased wife.
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