New York Surrogate's Court, 1886

In re Davidson

In re Davidson
New York Surrogate's Court · Decided July 15, 1886
5 Dem. Sur. 224

Counsel

Louis E. Post, for Fdw. F. Underhill., Gibbons & House, for executor.

In re Davidson

Opinion of the Court

The Surrogate.

The decree by which this re*225spondent was directed to pay the petitioner moneys out of the estate was not entered in a proceeding wherein it had been, as a result of inquiry, judicially ascertained and determined that the respondent had moneys of the estate in his hands' applicable to the payment of petitioner’s claim 5 on the contrary, the direction for payment was given in the decree admitting the will to probate. The contention of petitioner’s counsel that respondent cannot now interpose the non-existence of assets as a reason why he should not be punished for contempt in disobeying the decree in question is unsound. Motion denied.

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