Case Name: In re SCHUESSLER'S ESTATE
Court: New York Surrogate's Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1906-01
Citations: 98 N.Y.S. 939
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re SCHUESSLER’S ESTATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 98
Pages: 939–940

Head Matter:
(49 Misc. Rep. 203)
In re SCHUESSLER’S ESTATE.
(Surrogate’s Court, Kings County.
January, 1906.)
Executors and Administrators—Distribution or Estate.
Under Code Civ. Proc. § 2799, providing that where surplus money arising on foreclosure is paid into the Surrogate’s Court at any time before final distribution, and there is pending a proceeding for the sale of the decedent’s estate, the decree shall provide that the money shall be paid to his administrator. Helé that, where no proceeding for such sale is pending, every person entitled to share in the distribution of the proceeds must be cited.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see vol. 22, Cent Dig. Executors' and Administrators, § 1281.]
In the matter of the estate of Kasper Schuessler, deceased. Proceeding for the distribution of surplus money arising on foreclosure.
Proceeding dismissed.
Hugh Wintner, for petitioner.
_ P. A. Hatting, for Ferdinand Schuessler, Mary A. Schuessler, Fried-rich Schfing, Anna S. Bennett, and Ameba A. Stillwell, executrices of A. E. Stillwell, deceased, and Victor E. Bedingfield.
William D. Veeder, for respondents.

Opinion:
CHURCH, S.
This is a proceeding for the distribution of surplus moneys arising on a foreclosure suit which have been paid into the Surrogate's Court.
The method of distribution of such moneys is covered by section 2799 of the Code of Civil Procedure. By the first part of the section it is provided that, where at the time of the payment of such money into the Surrogate's Court, or at any time before the final distribution of the same, there is pending a proceeding for the sale of decedent's real estate to pay his debts, then the decree shall provide that such money be paid to the administrator. By chapter 750, p. 1907, of the Laws of 1904, the proceedings for the sale of decedent's real estate to pay his debts were very much simplified; and, instead of the surrogate hearing at length the rights and priorities of the creditors and other persons interested in the fund,.it was provided that the proceeds of the sale should be applied by the administrator as if he were an executor acting under a power of sale contained in a will. If such a proceeding was pending, therefore, at the time of the payment of this money into court, the matter would be an extremely simple one, and the decree would simply provide for the money being paid to the administrator. But the petition herein alleges that such is not the case. We therefore pass to the provision in the section affecting such a condition of affairs. This provides for the presentation of a petition praying for the distribution of the money. But, in order to give the court jurisdiction to make a decree upon such petition, every person entitled to share in the distribution of the proceeds of the sale must be cited, and on the return of the citation the rights and priorities of such persons must be established. The petition herein does not comply with this provision of the Code. It is true that it recites that certain persons are heirs at law, and it also mentions that certain other persons claim to be creditors. But it does not show, affirmatively, that they are the only persons entitled to share in the distribution of the proceeds.
The proceeding is therefore dismissed, with permission to renew . upon proper petition.
Decreed accordingly.