Case Name: In the Matter of the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Mary J. Odell, as Sole Surviving Testamentary Trustee, etc., of Lawrence Odell, Deceased, Appellant. Lydia H. Kane and Others, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1914-10
Citations: 164 A.D. 929
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Mary J. Odell, as Sole Surviving Testamentary Trustee, etc., of Lawrence Odell, Deceased, Appellant. Lydia H. Kane and Others, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 164
Pages: 929–929

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Mary J. Odell, as Sole Surviving Testamentary Trustee, etc., of Lawrence Odell, Deceased, Appellant. Lydia H. Kane and Others, Respondents.
Decedent's estate — accounting — commissions on sale of real estate.
Appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of New York, entered on the 26th day of October, 1912, settling the account of a testamentary trustee, and from an order entered on the 28th day of June, 1912, denying a motion to reopen the hearing before a referee to take and state the account.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
We think the trustee should have been allowed, in the settlement of her account, $200, the amount of commissions paid by her upon the sale of certain lots in the Wakefield tract. The referee, in his opinion, overruled the contestant's objections to these payments, but there was no mention of them in his report, or in the decree of the Surrogate's Court confirming the same, and the trustee was charged with the gross amount of sales. This was evidently an inadvertence. The decree, therefore, should be modified by crediting the trustee with the sum of $200; and as thus modified affirmed, with costs to the respondent. Present — Ingraham, P. J., McLaughlin, Laughlin, Clarke and Scott, JJ. Order modified as directed in opinion, and as modified affirmed, with costs to the respondent. Order to be settled on notice.