In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wicke
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Margaret E. Wolf and others, from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of ¡New York, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 14th day of April, 1902, denying their application to open, vacate and set aside a decree settling the accounts of the executors of Joseph Seidenberg, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
Upon this appeal we are asked to review the action of the surrogate in denying the appellants’ application to open and vacate a decree entered herein on December 5, 1901, settling the accounts of *222the executors of Joseph Seidenberg who died November: 15, 1896. The petitioners, who include three of the children of the deceased and the issue "of two of such children and represent three-sevenths of the- residuary estate, made the application by an order to show cause granted January 10, 1902, and averred that they had never received a copy of the decree and only learned of its entry…
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