Case ID: ad_236/html/0856-04.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Judicial Accounting of Minnie S. Westerbeke, as Temporary Administratrix, etc., of William Westerbeke, Deceased, Appellant. Minnie Alice DeGraff and William H. Westerbeke, Individually and as Executors, etc., of William Westerbeke, Deceased, Respondents.
   Decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Suffolk county, in so far as appealed from, affirmed, with costs to respondents, payable out of the estate. Lazansky, P. J., Kapper, Scudder and Tompkins, JJ., concur; Davis, J., dissents and votes to reverse on the ground that the language of the will is not sufficiently specific to exclude the. statutory allowance, which was not a part of-the assets of the estate, under- section 200 of the Surrogage’s Court Act. [143 Misc. 221.]