Treat v. Fortune

The Surrogate.

On the final accounting of the administrator, several objections were raised by the guardian of the next of kin. The most important of these related to a personal claim of the administrator against the intestate, for the expenses of an expedition to Texas, which is now for the first time presented, though the administrator has been called to account before.

The transaction occurred, as alleged by the administrator, between the 25th of January 1836, and the 3d of November 1838. Thirteen years expired before he presented *117his demand for adjudication. The guardian of the next of kin,…