In Re the Estate of McFeely

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

Mary McEeely died intestate on June 14, 1942, and in due course the Surrogate of Hudson County issued letters of administration on her estate, to her brother, Bernard N. McEeely. He died on August 8, 1949, without having filed an inventory or an accounting of his sister’s estate or without having made distribution thereof to her next of kin.

On April 11, 1950, Alice McEeely Gregory, a niece of Mary McEeely, filed a complaint in the Chancery Division of the Superior Court charging that Bernard N. McEeely had failed for a period of more…