Court Opinion

ID: 6220654
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-10 19:57:44.970154+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:57:18.071158
License: Public Domain

Merwiet, J.
(dissenting):
I think that the appeal should not in any respect prevail. Assuming that the Supreme Court judgment was an adjudication binding on the parties, the Surrogate’s Court, under the circumstances shown, had the right, under its power to control the conduct of the executors, to require them to make further investigation to a reasonable extent, to the end that if information was obtained that White or any descendants of his were alive, proper steps could be taken to obtain a modification of the judgment.
Order, so far as it authorized the expenditure of $5,000 to ascertain whether Ansel White, Jr., died before the testator, without issue, reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to be paid out o* the estate.