In re the Estate of Richman

Wingate, S.

While contests respecting insolvent estates are wont to prove acrimonious and pleonastic, the proceeding at bar has set something of a record in this regard. Its trial has consumed almost six full court days and has produced a record of over five hundred pages. The ultimate result of this weary welter of words is strongly reminiscent of the progeny of the mountain in labor, immortalized by Horace.

The questions of law involved are few and insignificant, the determinable issues being chiefly confined to questions of the comparative veracity of witnesses and to the inferences properly…