Court Opinion

ID: 5391227
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 09:50:46.848097+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:18.065614
License: Public Domain

An allegation in a petition, in a proceeding such as this, that the petitioner is a creditor of the estate, does not in and of itself suffice to establish the petitioner’s right to maintain the proceeding as a creditor. The status of a “ creditor ” is not the same as that of a “person interested in the estate.” (Cf. Surrogate’s Ct. Act, § 314, subds. 3, 10; see Matter of Leahy, 184 Misc. 250.) The learned Surrogate should have conducted a hearing and determined, upon evidence there adduced, whether the petitioner was a creditor prima facie. (Matter of Scheftel, 150 Misc. 3; see Matter of Ahrens, 270 App. Div. 1038.) Nolan, P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Wenzel, JJ., concur.