Case ID: ad_143/html/0910-16.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Second Department,
    February, 1911.
    In the Matter of the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Lizzie D. Affleck and James G. Affleck, as Trustees under the Last Will and Testament of James Affleck, Deceased, and of the Account of Proceedings of James G. Affleck, as Sole Acting Trustee under Said Will Since the Death of Said Lizzie D. Affleck.
    
      Surrogate — trust — accounting.
    
    Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester county denying an application to open a decree of that court entered May 18,1908.
   Per Curiam:

We are of opinion that in furtherance of justice the decree herein of the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester county should be vacated in order that the appellant may litigate properly, with an appropriate right of review on appeal, the question as to whether the stock certificates, which are the point of controversy, may be determined to be either principal or income as the law and facts may require. The form in which the account was rendered gave him no light on this subject. Nothing happened between the filing of the account and the entry of the decree which in all fairness should preclude him now from a judicial consideration of the merits of his claim. The order denying the motion to vacate the decree and reopen the accounting proceedings should be reversed and the motion granted, without costs to either party. Burr, Thomas, Carr, Woodward and Rich, JJ., concurred. Order of the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester county denying motion to vacate decree and reopen accounting proceedings reversed on reargument and motion granted, without costs to either party.