Case Name: In the Matter of the Appointment of a Committee of the Person and Property of Mary L. Thomas, an Alleged Incompetent Person, Appellant. Harry Baumeister, as Co-Committee et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1967-12-29
Citations: 21 N.Y.2d 720
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Appointment of a Committee of the Person and Property of Mary L. Thomas, an Alleged Incompetent Person, Appellant. Harry Baumeister, as Co-Committee et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 720–720

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Appointment of a Committee of the Person and Property of Mary L. Thomas, an Alleged Incompetent Person, Appellant. Harry Baumeister, as Co-Committee et al., Respondents.
Submitted December 6, 1967;
decided December 29, 1967.

Opinion:
Motion (1) for vacatur of the order of the Court of Appeals dated June 1, 1967 dismissing the appeal herein [see 19 N Y 2d 1015], (2) for substitution of the executor for the now deceased appellant Thomas as the party appellant herein, and/or (3) for clarification of said order of dismissal, dated June 1, 1967, dismissed. Upon the death of appellant Thomas the incompetency proceeding abated. (Matter of Beckwith, 87 N. Y. 503; Garter v. Beckwith, 128 N. Y. 312; Matter of Frank, 283 N. Y. 106; Matter of Fleming, 223 App. Div. 849; see, also, Ann., 54 ALR 2d 1161.) As the action did not survive the death of appellant Thomas, CPLR 1015 does not authorize substitution of another for her as party appellant.