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Matter of Eitingon

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Feb 20, 1947
73 N.E.2d 119 (N.Y. 1947)

Opinion

Argued January 7, 1947

Decided February 20, 1947

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, DELEHANTY, S.

Monroe Goldwater, George P. Halperin, Daniel Katz and Eugene V. Weissman for Motty Eitingon et al., individually, appellants.

Arthur Garfield Hays and James R. Cherry for Motty Eitingon et al., as executors of Solomon Schild, deceased, appellants.

Kenneth J. Mullane and William T. Griffin for Rose Eitingon Field, respondent.

Morris J. Bricker and Samuel Levy, special guardians for Joan Goldstein and another, respondent.


Appeal dismissed, without costs. An order or decree of a Surrogate's Court vacating a prior decree in an accounting proceeding, and ordering or contemplating further proceedings on the account, is not a final order in a special proceeding within the meaning of the Constitution. Anything to the contrary in Matter of Tilden ( 98 N.Y. 434) is hereby overruled. No opinion.

Concur: LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS, CONWAY, DESMOND, THACHER, DYE and FULD, JJ.


Summaries of

Matter of Eitingon

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Feb 20, 1947
73 N.E.2d 119 (N.Y. 1947)
Case details for

Matter of Eitingon

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Petition of ROSE EITINGON. In the Matter of the…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Feb 20, 1947

Citations

73 N.E.2d 119 (N.Y. 1947)
73 N.E.2d 119

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