Court Opinion

ID: 5357727
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 07:10:16.214336+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:49.960974
License: Public Domain

In an accounting proceeding in the Surrogate’s Court, Westchester county, the appellants, general legatees, object to the executors’ account as filed. The estate did not yield enough to satisfy the widow’s elective share and to pay all the bequests made in the will. The executors, after paying the widow’s share, paid the sum remaining toward satisfaction of a specific legacy. The appellants, general legatees, object and contend that because of the inadequacy of the estate to meet the bequests made in The will, the specific legacy should abate pro rota with the general legacies. The surrogate found that the testator’s primary intention was to provide an income for the specific legatee, overruled appellants’ objection, and allowed the account as filed. Decree, in so far as appeal is taken, unanimously affirmed, with costs to all respondents filing briefs, payable out of the estate. No opinion. Present — Lazansky. P. J-, Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Close, JJ. [166 Mise. 621.]