Case Name: In re RIES
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1915-10-15
Citations: 155 N.Y.S. 1136
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re RIES.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 155
Pages: 1136–1137

Head Matter:
In re RIES.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
October 15, 1915.)
In the matter of the application of Charles Ries and Aunna M. H. Hueg, as creditors of Catherine A. O, C. Rehfeldt.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The surrogate's right and duty to bring in an interested party who has not been named in the original citation is in furtherance of equity. Matter of Ibert, 48 App. Div. 510, 62 N. Y. Supp. 1051. No ground is disclosed to review or modify this exercise of. the surrogate's powers. The petition was also in proper form. "Where the applicants reside out of the county, and.the matters are peculiarly within the attorney's knowledge, the attorney may properly Verify -such, a petition. Mporehouse v. Hutchinson, 2 Qemárest, 429. The surrogate's order permitting an amendment and the issue of a supplemental Citation to bring in the mortgagee was therefore right. Order of the Surrogate's Court of Queens County affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements.