In Re the Estate of Van Bokkelen

This is a proceeding to determine the liability of a surety upon an administrator’s bond.

An administrator de bonis non, one D’Arcy Van Bokkelen, commenced a proceeding for his own accounting. After the hearings had been concluded, but before the order was made settling the account, National Surety Corporation, as surety for Van Bokkelen under a $50,000 bond, filed a petition under section 109 of the Surrogate’s Court Act, asking, as a matter of right, “to be relieved from liability as such surety * * * for the act or omission of such principal, occurring after the date of * * the entry of the…