Order unanimously modified in accordance with the Memorandum and as modified affirmed, without costs.
Memorandum:
The trial court correctly determined that the Surrogate Court decree was a bar to plaintiff's declaratory judgment action, but erroneously dismissed the complaint. It should have granted a declaration in defendants' favor (Hoffman v. City of Syracuse,
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