Case ID: ad_240/html/0748-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Application of The Farmers and Mechanics Trust Company of Bath, N. Y., for a Determination as to the Validity, Construction and Effect of the Disposition of Property Contained in the Last Will and Testament of Alice L. Smith, Deceased.
   Per Curiam.

Section 71 of the Surrogate’s Court Act provides that upon a trial before the surrogate, without a jury, the surrogate must file in his office his decision in writing which shall direct the decree to be entered, etc. No such decision appears in the record now before us. Without such decision the decree is defective and does not support an appeal. (Matter of Widmayer, 52 App. Div. 301. Compare Sautter v. Frick, 227 id. 760, and cases there cited.) All concur. Appeal .dismissed, without costs, and matter remitted to the surrogate to supply the defect.