In re the Estate of Schorer

Feely, S.

Upon rejection of a timely presented, verified claim on an oral contract for services to this testator, the attorneys for the respective parties agreed that the matter should stand awhile, and when the executor was prepared to settle his accounts, this claim would be tried out before the surrogate. Aside from claimant’s attorney serving, with the claim, a notice of retainer and appearance, nothing further was done by either party until the time, over seven and a half years after the claim had accrued, when the claimant filed a petition to compel the executor to account. The latter…