MATTER OF SMITH


9 Misc.2d 800 (1957)

In the Matter of the Accounting of the Public Administrator of Kings County, as Administrator of The Estate of Harry C. Smith, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Kings County.

October 9, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel G. Connolly for the Public Administrator.

Eugene J. Keogh, John E. Quinn, David W. Kelly and Thomas Dougherty for unknown distributees.

Barnett J. Nova, special guardian, Arthur Halpern and Herbert D. Feinberg for unknown distributees.

John W. Castles, III, for Rutherford H. Ferry and others.

Justin M. Feldman for R. M. Smith.

Joseph O'Handley for William S. Coffey.

L. Harrison Thayer, II, and Gavin Miller for Ruth B. Ronning.

Myron Fineman for Jean Mackdon.

Alvin Tahlor for Nellie R. Marshall.

Henry J. Walsh for Katherine C. Twing.

William S. Coffey and Joseph O'Handley for Donald P. Smith and others.

Andrew J. McLean for estate of Patrick H. Smith, deceased.

Harold J. Baily for Edward A. Baily and others.

George Weisbrod for Mary E. French.

Samuel Schacter for Pauline S. Johnson.

Silas J. Bennett for R. M. Smith.

John H. Barker for Edwin H. Smith, as executor of Hartwell L. Smith, deceased.

Rocco P. Regitano for Jenny Walts and others.

George Spiros, Nicholas Scourby and Edward D. Bolton for Elmore Smith and another.

Jacob K. Javits, Attorney-General (Flavius N. Costerella of counsel), for indefinite beneficiaries.

Jackson, Nash, Brophy, Barringer & Brooks for Jessie L. Brown.

Albert Dorf for State Tax Commission.

Selig Dressner for Etha Mummert.

Marie Louise Stern for French Consul General.

Graustein & Kormendi for William B. Chapin, Jr.

Leonard P. Moore, United States Attorney (Richard C. Packard of counsel), for United States of America.

John B. Freiden and Vernon Stiver for Sarah Creech.

Howard & Aronfeld for Francis Smith.

G. Solar Alfrey for Mary S. Bidwell.

Edward W. Brooke for Zora S. Benford.

Sidney R. Siben for Stanley D. Main.


NATHAN SWEEDLER, Ref.

On October 24, 1951, Harry Chapin Smith, the decedent herein, died intestate, a resident of Kings County. On December 29, 1954, the Public Administrator of the County of Kings, as administrator of the estate of Harry Chapin Smith, the decedent, filed a petition and account of his proceedings. The Public Administrator alleged that the decedent's distributees were unknown, and listed the names...

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