MATTER OF HODGKINSON


18 Misc.2d 425 (1959)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Augusta Hodgkinson as Administratrix of William Hodgkinson, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Nassau County.

July 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis X. Brickfield and Robert L. Callahan for administratrix.

Samuel D. Turk for claimant.

Louis S. Bachiel, as special guardian.

Charles H. Tenney, Corporation Counsel, for City of New York.


JOHN D. BENNETT, S.

This is an accounting proceeding in which a claim by the mother of the decedent is being contested by the decedent's wife as administratrix of the estate.

There appears to be little dispute that the claimant did transfer to decedent the sum of $7,000 as alleged. The administratrix and the special guardian of the infant children of decedent contend that the transfer of the money was a gift or, at least, that the proof is as...

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