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Sills v. Fleet National Bank

81 A.D.3d 1426 Court N.Y. App. Div. Decision date 2011-02-18 Docket Appeal No. 5 English

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In the Matter of Robert Sills et al., as Coexecutors of Angeline V. Sills, Deceased, Appellants, v Fleet National Bank et al., Respondents. Audrey Patrone Peartree, Guardian ad Litem, Respondent. Robert Sills et al., Appellants, v Fleet Bank et al., Respondents. Audrey Patrone Peartree, Guardian ad Litem, Respondent. Robert Sills et al., as Coexecutors of Angeline V. Sills, Deceased, Appellants, v Joan Royston, Respondent. Audrey Patrone Peartree, Guardian ad Litem, Respondent.
(Appeal No. 5.)
[918 NYS2d 909]

— Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Steuben County (Peter C. Bradstreet, A.J.), entered December 31, 2009. The order granted the application of Audrey Patrone Peartree, as guardian ad litem for decedent Angeline V Sills, to retain Elizabeth A. Wolford as counsel to represent her in an appeal of the court’s decision and order dated September 10, 2009, and ordered that all reasonable fees and disbursements incurred by the guardian ad litem in that appeal be paid for by the estate of Angeline V Sills.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously vacated without costs and the matter is remitted to Supreme Court, Steuben County, for further proceedings in accordance with the same memorandum as in Matter of Sills v Fleet Natl. Bank ( 81 AD3d 1422 [2011]). Present — Scudder, P.J., Fahey, Peradotto, Lindley and Martoche, JJ.

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