In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Curtis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the claimant, Mary O. Curtis, from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of New York, entered in the office of said Surrogate’s Court on the 21st day of June, 1918, as denies the appellant a preference in the payment of her claim. An appeal is also taken, as stated in the notice of appeal, from the decision of the surrogate.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
Mary O. Curtis was, at one time, the wife of Philip Curtis. She procured a judgment against him for divorce, by which he was required to pay to her $250 a month alimony. At the time of his death there was due and unpaid of said alimony $17,675. The estate amounted to about $9,000. The claims against the estate, exclusive of her claim, amount to over $50,000. If her claim for preference be allowed, her claim will absorb all of the estate. In Thayer v. Thayer (145 App. Div. 268), wherein the plaintiff had procured a judgment against the defendant granting to her alimony which was…
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