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180 A.D. 269

In re McLean

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1917-11-14

Appeal by John B. Judson and another from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Fulton county, entered in the office of said Surrogate’, s Court on the 30th day of June, 1917, granting leave to issue execution against the property of the appellants personally.

Decided 1917-11-14

Sewell, J.:

¶1We think that the court erred in granting leave to issue the execution. The right to contest the probate of the will did not exist in the appellants personally. They necessarily contested it in the right of their intestate and the record shows that they were parties to the proceeding in their representative character. Under such circumstances it would not be proper to charge the appellants personally with costs, and the word contestants ” in the decree must be held to refer to them in their representative capacity, and not to them as individuals.

¶2The order appealed from should be reversed, with costs and disbursements to the appellants.

¶3All concurred.

¶4Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.

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