In re the Open, Vacate & Set Aside a Decree of this Court, Dated February 8, 1927, Granting Letters of Administration to Hone

The administrator and the surety upon his official bond appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Suffolk county, entered February 17, 1936, which vacated a former decree made by the same court, entered November 10, 1927, judicially settling the administrator’s accounts and directing the payment of the balance of the estate to him personally. The decree appealed from also granted recovery against the administrator and his surety by the decedent’s next of kin.

The administrator was the brother of the decedent’s husband, who predeceased the decedent. The property left by the decedent came…