In re the Estate of Greenberg

Wingate, S.

The only issue in this contested accounting which was litigated before the referee, Walter Jeffries Carlin, Esq., is raised by the objection of certain creditors to the failure of the accounting widow-executrix to include in the assets of the estate the proceeds of a certain check for $2,500 received by the decedent on the day before his death.

The testator died on January 11, 1930, as the result of a cancer. He had been confined to bed for about a year and a half, during which time he had wasted from about 160 pounds to 50. On January 10, 1930, his brother-in-law secured from the…