Matter of Carpenter

In Matter of Carpenter, 154 Misc. 143 [1935] the court held that the administrator was not liable for distributing the entire estate in good faith to the decedent's son at a time when the administrator had no reason to know that the decedent was also survived by another distributee, an infant grandchild, and stated: "Administrators are not insurers or guarantors, and in order to hold such fiduciaries responsible for their acts it must be shown that they have been guilty of negligence or misconduct of some other nature by which the estate has suffered a loss"