Case Name: Matter of the Estate of Patrick Walton, Deceased
Court: New York Surrogate's Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1902-10
Citations: 3 Mills Surr. 278
Docket Number: 
Parties: Matter of the Estate of Patrick Walton, Deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mills' Surrogate's Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 278–279

Head Matter:
Matter of the Estate of Patrick Walton, Deceased.
(Surrogate’s Court, New York County,
October, 1902.)
Judicial Settlement—Parties.
Where an executrix is accounting in her husband’s estate and he and she have been successively the legal representatives of another estate, a person interested in that estate is a proper party to her accounting and may file objections to her account.
Application of executrix'to strike from the proceedings the names of an administratrix of a deceased legatee of another estate of which the widow’s decedent was executor, and the objections which one of them has interposed.
C. B. Plante, for executrix; Edward J. McGuire, for contestant.

Opinion:
Fitzgerald, S.
The moving party is the executrix of the will of her deceased husband. He was the representative of an estate of which his widow is now the administratrix, c. t. a. She is accounting as executrix of her husband's estate, and to such! accounting she has made parties certain persons, one of whom is interested in the estate which the accountant represents as administratrix. She now moves to strike from the proceeding the names of these persons and the objections which one of them has interposed. The motion is based on the claim that the persons mentioned are unnecessary and improper parties to the proceeding. The claim, as to the party who has filed the objections, is untenable. She is undoubtedly a proper party, as the estate in which she is interested is entitled to be represented upon the accounting for the protection of its rights and interests, and by a person not having, $s has the moving party, antagonistic rights and interests. Matter of Daniel Quinn, 30 N. Y. St. Repr. 212; Bunnell v. Ranney, 2 Dem. 327; Solomons v. Kursheedt, 3 id. 310-311. The pendency of the accounting proceedings brought under sections 2606 and 2728 of the Code of Civil procedure, to which both the moving party and the objectant are parties, affords no sufficient reason or justification for striking out the name of the latter or the objections which she has filed. The objections are allowed to stand for the present, but no trial of the same shall be had until the termination of the proceedings under section 2606, when such application may be made for their disposition as the circumstances may seem to warrant. The application so far as it affects the objectant, is denied. As to the children of the applicant, it is granted.
Decreed accordingly.