In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Van Alstyne
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Laura L.- Van Alstyne, individually and as executrix, etc., and another, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of .the county of Albany, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 18th day of May, 1910, confirming the amended report of a referee surcharging the account of said executrix.
1Dissent
Betts, J. (dissenting):
This case has been before this court before and the decree of the surrogate was reversed. (See the opinion of a majority óf the court, reported in 142'App. Div. 209.) A motion for reargument was made by the executor which was granted.
Thomas J. Van Alstyne, the deceased, was a lawyer and at one time county judge of Albany county and had been a member of Congress from the Albany congressional district, and was a man of means and ability. He had been three times; married. By his first wife he had one son, the executor, Thomas B. Van Alstyne; by his second wife he had no…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Young v. . YoungNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of BolinNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Alexandria Bay Steamboat Co. v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897