In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Garlock

This is an appeal from an order made in an accounting proceeding. The executor filed a petition for a final accounting, together with his account and asked for a judicial settlement. Objections to the account were filed, and a trial had upon the issues so framed. The practice followed is somewhat mystifying. Whenever, upon the trial, an important question arose, the surrogate made a separate written decision. One such decision, made and dated December 20, 1935, decided only that the executor personally was the owner of what had been a joint account in a certain savings and loan association.…