Case Name: PHILENA B. FISHER, as Administratrix, etc., and others, Plaintiffs, v. GEORGE HUBBELL, as Executor, etc., and others, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1874-06
Citations: 8 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 610
Docket Number: 
Parties: PHILENA B. FISHER, as Administratrix, etc., and others, Plaintiffs, v. GEORGE HUBBELL, as Executor, etc., and others, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Supreme Court Reports (Hun)
Volume: 8
Pages: 610–610

Head Matter:
PHILENA B. FISHER, as Administratrix, etc., and others, Plaintiffs, v. GEORGE HUBBELL, as Executor, etc., and others, Respondents.
Reference—m’der of— when unusual.
A decree giving a construction, to a will and appointing a referee, and also making him a receiver, with power to carry his decision into effect without previously making his report to the court for confirmation, in an action brought for the construction of a will, for an accounting, sale of real property, and for other relief, goes further than is .usual, and should be modified by making the reference to the referee merely interlocutory, with direction to report to the court upon all the facts, matters, etc.
Motion for a new trial under section 268 of the Code.
Re L. Crittenden, for the plaintiff, Caroline C. Frary.
W. W. Rowley, for the plaintiff, Philena B. Fisher.
Morse & Wells, for the defendants.
The construction given to the will by the decree, was that suggested in the opinion delivered in this case on a former hearing at General Term. (1 N. Y. Sup. Ct. Rep., 97.)

Opinion:
Opinion by Smith, J.
Present — Mullin, P. J., Smith and Gilbert, JJ.
Decree modified.