Masters v. Eclectic Life Insurance

The justice presiding at Special Term directed a reference to determine the interest of the estate of Ella W. Sanders, deceased, to an undistributed fund on deposit in the office of the Comptroller of the State of New York to the credit of the liquidation of the Eclectic Life Insurance Company. The petition on which the reference was ordered shows that the insurance company was liquidated by the Department of Insurance in March, 1878, by an order of the Court of Common Pleas of the City and County of New York, directing distribution of the sum of $103,000 then held by that Department. There…