In re the Estate of Haber

Delehanty, S.

Challenge is made of the jurisdiction of this court to continue and conclude an inquiry respecting the proceeds of a business once conducted by deceased but claimed by respondent — his widow — to have been purchased from him by her before his death. Concededly she sold the business after the death and if the court has jurisdiction it may determine whether these proceeds belong to respondent or to the estate. Respondent has put in evidence an instrument purporting to be a bill of sale of the property executed by deceased in his lifetime and now asserts that no further inquiry may…