In re the Estate of Israel

John D. Bennett, S.

In this intermediate accounting of an essentially poorly administered estate, the central theme has been a failure to encounter and resolve the conflicting claims between the estate and one of its executors, Maurice Goodman, whose financial dealings with the decedent, his executive secretary at the time, have left a tangled web of numerous transactions.

Mr. Goodman is characterized in his brief as having. once been a millionaire and his interests seem to have been primarily in securities and the investment world. He appears to have engaged-heavily in borrowing funds from…