Merritt v. Jackson
New York Surrogate's Court
Application by Abraham C. Merritt, administrator of the estate of Jane Merritt, late a party respondent to the executor’s accounting, to be substituted as a party in the place of his decedent.
1Opinion of the Court
The Surrogate.
I have been referred tono reported case, which decides how far orders and decrees of a Surrogate’s court are binding upon the representatives of one who, having been a party to the proceedings, has died during their pendency, in cases where such representatives have not themselves subsequently been made parties.
But it seems eminently proper, even if it is not essential, that one who is the acknowledged representative of a party deceased, and who asks as such to intervene, should be allowed so to do. That course is sanctioned by Lafferty v. Lafferty (5 Redf., 326); Van Alen v.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lafferty v. LaffertyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1881