In re the Estate of Ziemba

Wingate, S.

The basic issue in this proceeding concerns the status of the petitioner as a person authorized to maintain a proceeding for a compulsory accounting against an executrix. The facts present an apparently novel situation, and, so far as the court deems them material, they are wholly undisputed.

The present decedent died on August 29, 1931, survived by a widow and eight children, four girls and four boys, of whom the latter were all infants, the eldest of the boys, Peter, having been bom on June 29, 1914. His will, which was admitted to probate on November 13, 1931, purported to…