In re Hall
New York Surrogate's Court
1Opinion of the Court
Calvin, Surrogate.
Redfield, in his Law and Practice in Surrogates’ Courts, at page 388, states that “ the practice generally prevails of permitting objections to *150be stated in the most general language,” wherever it appears that the transactions embraced in the account are not within the personal knowledge of the contestant. There seems to be an obvious propriety in such a practice—but wherever it is apparent that the items of account are within the knowledge of' the contestant, the objections should be so specified as to call attention to the particular items questioned.
In this case, so far…
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